I have been a long time proponent of the Apple Video iPod — I love mine — but it started going mental on its 6-month birthday, which supports the conspiracy that iPods are only supposed to last six-month.
You all know how much I have love the 30G Video iPod that Pete Snyder gave every one of his loyal NMS employees at the Christmas party last December. Well I think it is dying. Wish me luck. It is inscribed with my name and New Media Strategies and is filled with loads of content I need to listent to when I am on my runs.
Let’s hope the a Guru at the Apple Store in Clarendon can help me out this weekend or I might have to say something like Apple Sucks or iPods Suck or the iPod Sucks or something awful like that…
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Well, it doesn’t make any sense for them to last only six months because the warranty is a year. At the worst, they’ll just give you a replacement iPod. That happened to my very first one, the original first generation 5 gig ipod with the mechanical scroll wheel. I think it stopped accepting clicks. Anyway, I called it in, they shipped me a new one in a few days.
Granted, being iPod-less is no fun, but I mean, things sometimes break – that’s the whole reason for the warranty.
Beware, one of the reasons your iPod is going flaky could be those runs you take it on. The pound-pound-pound can be murder on the hard drive.
Chris, glad you still love it and hope it holds up!!! Yikes, didn’t aim to get the “self-destruct after 6 mo” model.
bring it back to life like the boat!
I have a 3G iPod (four individual buttons) and it works fine. Hell, the battery still gives me a good 4-5 hours of play time. My wife has a 4G that made through 8 months of Iraq.
I did a hard reset and updated the software and we’ll see if she works not — if she doesn’t I will take her to a guru — what I dont’ want is to get a replacement that doesn’t have the “Chris Abraham New Media Strategies” part!
Again, thanks Pete!