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Story: MPs batter Apple over iPod batteries

Posted by: Edward Marlowe (Friday 23 January 2004, 4:12 PM)

Interesting controversy....

I've been tentatively considering an iPod for a while - it'll either be that, or mini disk. Thing is, I don't want it to buy digital music off the web, but to replace the back-up / take anywhere facility that my old cassette walkman and cassette decks offered, but with digital quality and reduced overall size. I've always been dismissive of MP3 players as being too limited, but now there's a 40 gig iPod....

I'm totally sold on the design and convenience of the iPod for a portable version of all my CDs, though there remains the open question of what to do with my vinyl, which could well be the deciding factor between that and MD. The other thing is the *price* of an iPod.... I'm hoping that will drop radically over the next couple of years, as at present, I'm not sure that I would be able to justify the cost (even if i had the money). Price for me is a problem with Apple stuff - I'm totally sold on their quality and design (I'm sure this battery issue will be sorted out quickly, and there will be non-apple sources that can sort it out at a reasonable cost (£70 seems a bit much for only 18 months of battery power, in my humble, non-expert opinion), but the cost.... I think i'd be scared to take a £400 walkman anywhere. The only reason I'm still chained to a damn Windows PC box is that I just couldn't afford to go Apple. :( Oh well, come the revolution, eh?