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Published: Monday 20 June 2005
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So this is what passes for journalism now? A broad statement about declining iPod quality based on the experience of one journalist's personal experience?
And how, exactly, is the brand "damaged?" Not much in this article to suggest that, especially given the contradictions of most branding studies suggesting that Apple is still one of the best admired brands in the world.
Next time, please include some facts and basis for the inclusion of broad, sweeping statements in your next article.
Well, I can tell you this ipod lover will be jumpi...
Just
So this is what passes for journalism now? A broa...
Anonymous
I understand the frustration, but know from years ...
Vic Schmidt
I don't know you guys do with your ipods but I've ...
Tom
Me likes me iPod thank you very much!
Anonymous
Nice hit piece.
the premise of your story is ...
Alan Levy
Duke performed an experiment with iPods that faile...
Anonymous
Working at a store that's also an Apple reseller. ...
Anonymous
Food, water, iPod, shelter. I've got my priorities...
Anonymous
I do find it unfortunate that Duke thought the iPo...
Anonymous
Get real! iPods Rock! You guys are really reachi...
Jyakku
Ha. OK, let's see. iPod are loosing their coolness...
Ted Landis
none of the ipods support ogg vorbis nor do the su...
Anonymous
Blah blah blah. The leader is always the focus of ...
John
Egads! Is this what passes for journalism wherever...
Anonymous
I've had a 40gb ipod for over a year now. Zero pro...
Anonymous
First off, the "fact" that Duke University has sto...
hank johnson
Your just wrong. Mostly people just love their i-p...
Anonymous
While I have no love for Apple, this article was r...
Anonymous
Are you crazy? You are talking about 3 out of 1650...
H. Adkins
You've got to be kidding!!! This is just about th...
Junk Article
Apple stuff is top notch in Quality. Is it a sin t...
James Joyce
This article is far from the truth. I do not know ...
Anonymous
Man, if one of those Duke kids wrote this story as...
Joe Soap
I have been an iPod user since the first 5GB model...
Marcos D
Silicon.com part of the CNET family? Nuf said. [E...
Anonymous
Millions of iPods sold and you base you article on...
Frank
You think the grass is greener on the other side?
...
macFanDave
Re: iPod performance issues -
I have yet to hea...
Jack H
It's not over for me!
I've owned 6 iPods (curre...
Anonymous
I love my iPod -- now two years old -- and I've ne...
Jim McGaw
After reading your recent article "Is the iPod lov...
Anonymous
My 20g iPod is over six months old and works great...
Anonymous
Spare us. Statistically, the number of problem iPo...
mangus
One iPod... wow that is quite a trend.
And I lo...
Bill Gaetes
This article reads like 'I am really pissed off at...
Daniel Stephens
I guess we'll know after a few million more Creati...
Anonymous
What a load of bollocks.
The Duke University pr...
Anonymous
If you think it sucks so bad, try using a Rio play...
dave woodruff
Sad attempt at reporting fluff. Little late jumpi...
Anonymous
The battery life of any rechargeable device is lar...
Anonymous
Say it ain't so Apple,
You mean somewhere on th...
Anonymous
Hahahahahaha! iPod flawed? Good one!
Oh, you we...
Sir William Gates
This is a rather sad article for a number of reaso...
Sondjata Olatunji
I've owned two iPods - a 30 GB model and an 60 GB ...
Anonymous
If they are trying to sell shuffles, how come it t...
Ann Marie
Unbelievable. 1 to 4 problems & quality is bad acr...
squishy
Slow news day?
Anonymous
Yawn. My wife and I love our iPods (1 Pod, 2 Minis...
NYC Person
I'm not Apple cultist, but this article read like ...
Fred Nickerson
Simply put, the article is a load of crap. I don'...
Brian Ford
Is the Silicon.com love affair over? CNET's unlove...
Leflyman
Who pays you guys to dish Apple?
Paul Haines
Wow, this article had very few facts and lots of u...
Mac T. User
Let's get this straight. You think that the iPod i...
Gary Toews
I personally has own and 1st generation and the 4t...
Anonymous
Hmm...I purchased two 20Gb fourth-gen iPods for me...
Jim
Claiming that only ~1/3 of Duke students using the...
Anonymous
What a heap of garbage. This is corporate underwr...
Anonymous
What were you guys doing to those iPods? I have h...
Anonymous
Silicom.com go get your Zen. Haha. Have fun. Buhby...
George
Fishing for controversy to drum up some traffic? I...
Anonymous
silly article ..
apple survived a massive batt...
Eddy
You have to be kidding right?
I have purchased ...
Anonymous
I guess when you are successful it is the media's ...
Mac
I keep reading about these iPod failures, and yet ...
Anonymous
Broken "Journalists" the real problem. Gosh, I don...
Andrew Clark
Looks to me like your scrambling for content. The ...
Marc
Um, lame.
Anonymous
Yeah, I hear Dell, Gateway, Sony, and HP all make ...
C.O.
I don't believe this is the first signs of a "back...
Henry Blackman
Comments with regard to Duke University are actual...
Anonymous
THIS IS A BUNCH OF BS. APPLE IS ON TOP OF ITS GAME...
Anonymous
How could anyone trust a article that has a Micros...
Roger Jenkins
It might be that ths article is right about a chan...
Anonymous
It's actually the beginning of sensational iPod jo...
Phong Le
I absolutely agree with the comments on iPOD relia...
Anonymous
To Roger Jenkins who is a teacher: - Rog, the "the...
Anonymous
I've had my 30Gb ipod for 3 years now and still ha...
Dave King
Is THE iPod love affair over?
Not at all.
H...
Dave Stephens
Has journalism died at silicon.com? I read a few a...
st3f
I don’t have an iPod, but I can’t see myself ever ...
Jeff Drake
Hmm.
It seems the apple mob are happy bunnies...
Anonymous
Don't pay. Sue them.
There is no way you shoul...
Pete Ender
Microsoft just wish!!
Did anyone ever defend MS...
Pete Ender
What are you talking about? Is this real reporting...
Anonymous
What is it with all the Editorial comments to the ...
Geoff
I have never had a problem with my 1st generation ...
Anonymous
Let me get this straight...you work for a site cal...
Anonymous
IPods are lame. People without a measure of cool t...
Pablo
It must have taken all of 5 minutes to research th...
Ant Craven
I've had a 40Gb for nearly a year. I've had no pr...
Bruce Boomstick
I have just bought a Creative MuVo N200 1GB (£89 -...
Anonymous
typical - IT people always find some small excuse ...
Jaz Singh
I agree with the earlier comment that the examples...
Kevin Worrall
I don't about the effect of this article on iPod, ...
Mouly
Mine's still works great. It's a little scratched,...
Steve Kayner
I don't have an iPod but I've been considering get...
Ronald Dumsfeld FBI
Go back to writing on your blog it's more fitting ...
Dave
I have no gripe with Apple per se - I just cannot ...
Minnie the Minx
To Minnie the Minx: Better sound quality doesn't c...
Anon
Am I the only one that thinks maybe the guy's got ...
n/a
Umm, has anyone noticed this is one bloke's opinio...
Steve Jobs
I have one other question - why is anyone who has ...
Anonymous
A previous poster asked:
---
Am I the only one t...
Mark Hartman
What in hell do you mean by knackered click wheel?...
Buster
I totally agree with this article, It is clear to ...
The only Smart one
This is a poorly written article. I don't know how...
Anonymous
What does the failure of the Duke's iPod program h...
Monte Melugin
Sitting on a load of iPods? Perhaps silcon.com do...
Anonymous
Ouch!! You blokes at Silicon must put on a tin hat...
Malcolm Wilson
Silicon.com hides behind diffuse identity... it mu...
Anonymous
Can I just defend silicon.com a little bit? Let's...
tmr
Forget about the headphones, iPods are great!
A...
Anonymous
Explaining: Silicon.com part of the CNET family......
Anonymous
Silicon.com has successfully gone and taken a dump...
M G
Oh, and one more thing. You post in your response...
M G
Bogus.
Anonymous
On the contrary, your writing that article that tr...
Nero
RE: editorial comment
"Then you point to anecd...
Alan Levy
I wish you weren't a liar.
By the way, how much ...
Jimmy Smith
I recommend that you guys be let go from your jobs...
Anonymous
Hmmm... It will be hard to consider silicon.com a ...
B.K.
Why do you even bother? Really. It's unimaginable ...
Rikk David
I got an 20gb iPod as an Xmas present in December ...
Anonymous
The UPS guy told me he's picking up 'loads of thes...
nik
If Apple replaced your ipods, then the new ones s...
Anonymous
If you have the same problems with the iPod both t...
Anonymous
APPLE SHEEP BLEETING!
Why can’t you tunnel visi...
Concerned Human
Did anyone read the Duke report? Doesn't look lik...
Anonymous
FISHING ANYONE??
Any humans(PC users) fancy a q...
Henry Heron
that stuff about the shuffle damaging the ipod bra...
Billy Ray cYRUS
Changing an iPod battery is easy!
Got a 3rd Gen...
Anonymous
"and its all gone quiet over there...."
as a lo...
Henry Heron
Mac lovers get your heads out of the sand (or othe...
Anonymous
Anecdotal evidence from a few journalist wannabees...
Anonymous
As a Duke student who participated in the iPod pro...
Anonymous
Great to hear some sensible coverage of the iPod f...
Anonymous
These "iPod Killer" and "Demise of iPod" articles ...
John
Personally, my 10GB iPod has lasted 3 years and th...
grtgrfx
Wonder what you're doing with your ipods...
My ...
Anonymous
Nice non-story.
Guess you slept through your lo...
Me Brain
yes this is the saddest article I have bothered to...
Tom
I was having a discussion about this with some fri...
Marty
Good article, too bad you will just get flamed by ...
Anonymous
it's about time people saw the ipod for what it re...
Chris Berkley
go buy an iriver h320 INTERNATIONAL VERSION
kicks...
Anonymous
Finally, someone with th sense to say what some of...
Iain
I really do detest these Apple zealots. I have ha...
Benny Placido
Get Apple Care! I'm on my 4th 40Gig ipod in less t...
Anonymous
this article dosent prove much but i am an ipod ha...
shaun
Its so funny to listen to all these ipod haters, j...
The voice of truth
Did Bill Gates pay you to write this crap?
BlowMe
Silicon is *not* anti-Apple (nor pro-Microsoft). T...
Chris Nixon
The Creative Zen has better sound quality, longer ...
Patrick Archibald
It seems as though you guys just beat the heck out...
Harry Green
I've had my iPod Mini for a while now, and let me ...
Anonymous
Whoa! What manner of crap is this? I've benn using...
Sprocket999
The Creative Zen 40gb is superior to any feeble Ip...
Andy Dee
I bought my 1st generation iPOD the day they were ...
neil fairbrother
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