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From: Richard Tobin on 13 Mar 2010 18:04 When your iPad needs a new battery, you will send it to Apple and they will send you a replacement (presumably second-hand) iPad, minus data. Obviously they won't do this if your iPad is damaged, so it appears that a scratched screen will mean throwing it out when the battery expires (or more likely, getting an "unauthorised" replacement battery). www.apple.com/support/ipad/service/battery -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.
From: Peter Ceresole on 13 Mar 2010 19:20 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > so it appears > that a scratched screen will mean throwing it out when the battery > expires (or more likely, getting an "unauthorised" replacement > battery). I'd say that this will be the normal route- until Apple decide that they'll make a version with a replaceable battery. It all sounds a bit 'iPod'-like in the early days... Then they were shamed into sorting that out. It'll be the bad publicity associated with thousands of complaints that does it. As always, don't, don't, don't get v.1. -- Peter
From: Ian Piper on 13 Mar 2010 19:35 On 2010-03-13 23:04:13 +0000, richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) said: > When your iPad needs a new battery, you will send it to Apple and they > will send you a replacement (presumably second-hand) iPad, minus data. > Obviously they won't do this if your iPad is damaged, so it appears > that a scratched screen will mean throwing it out when the battery > expires (or more likely, getting an "unauthorised" replacement > battery). > > www.apple.com/support/ipad/service/battery > > -- Richard Oh, that's not good. Big mistake. They don't do this with the batteries in MacBook Pros so why would they need to with iPads? As Peter says, best not to be an early adopter. Maybe I'd better get that Soviet Kindle after all so I have something to read my ebooks on while Apple sorts this nonsense out. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Mar 2010 06:25 Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > As Peter says, best not to be an early adopter. And by v.2 they may have ditched the ultimate lunacy, and found some way to play Flash streams on it. I mean, it might eventually turn out to be quite good... -- Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 14 Mar 2010 06:29
On 2010-03-14 10:25:55 +0000, Peter Ceresole said: > Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> As Peter says, best not to be an early adopter. > > And by v.2 they may have ditched the ultimate lunacy, and found some way > to play Flash streams on it. I want iPad v2 to come out though before hell freezes over. -- Chris |