Awesome!

[cyen]

Oh great, first my phone decided to not work properly anymore, and now I can't even turn on my old mp3 player even when I plug it into the adapter. The player has been acting wonky ever since the big move (battery drains way too quickily). I went to creative to see if I can trouble shoot it, and the site said they longer support that product. I

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[choukoumei]

It seems like electronics always choose to break at the same time.

I get considerably annoyed at the shelf life of technology these days myself, especially since things are also that much more expensive.

I have an ipod and love it, but I didn't pay for it (it was an x-mas gift from my parents) and I use it everyday and use quite a bit of the space on it.

[cyen]

T_T Yeah, the whole shelf life of technology really ticks me off. I spent lots of money on it, and I expect it to last for at least ten years. Then again, it goes against the whole captialistic/consumer concept. Basically I feel that I'm not getting enough value about of my electronics

[choukoumei]

A few years back, there was a huge brouhaha that they were expecting people to buy a brand new ipod if the battery died instead of replacing the batteryYeah I remember that. But apple is hardly the only company to resort to such tactics. Everything is on rechargable batteries now, but those only have a certain shelf life. And even if they will replace a battery, they'll eventually stop making that battery and tell you that you need to buy their new product. I had that exact problem with my cell phone once, I needed a replaced battery, they had to struggle to find me one and said that I needed to buy a new phone because the next battery that died wouldn't be able to be replaced

[cyen]

But apple is hardly the only company to resort to such tactics.

Yup yup, I agree with you exactly. Sucks that a lot of the companies do that now. As much as I like using rechargable batteries (or certain proprietary hardwares in general), I'm not keen about the short shelf life. Then again, it's all about trying to get consumers to buy as much of their products as possible. I also agree that things would be better if electronics were cheaper. I still feel guilty throwing away something because it's so wasteful and bad for the environment, but there's no one who would be willing to fix broken electronics. I'm pretty sure they can make technology lasts longer, but that would go against the whole comsumerism. If things never broke, then companies can't sell as much of their products.

Wid had a G3 but then he ended up getting PC after that because of the wide selection of games. On the other hand, my brother had a PC in college, but he ended up switching over to Apple and never looked back.

[choukoumei]

Wid had a G3 but then he ended up getting PC after that because of the wide selection of games. On the other hand, my brother had a PC in college, but he ended up switching over to Apple and never looked back.

Gaming is one of the arguments for getting a PC over an Apple, you can certainly get an Apple that's powerful enough for gaming but even if you do the game selection that is on Macs is limited. Since the majority of the world still uses PC there are some things that can be hard to find for a mac.

I don't game on my computer though, and have no desire to (I always tell people I waste enough time as it is, I don't need an online game to take over my life). For the things I need, apple has it (photoshop, painter, etc)