SPUY767 said:
I don't know how much exactly you know about manufacturing, but manufacturing of anything is an imperfect science. You see, the Earth has, what I like to call, gravity. Things made in a "Gravity Rich" enviroment tend to favor one sode or another. Imagine, if you will, a cup of yogurt with blueberries in it. After a while, the blueberries will all sink to the bottom. The rate that this occurs can be controlled by temperature, but barring the freezing of the solution outright, it will happen. Manufacturing is the same way, polycarbonates in plastics will "clump" together to form pockets of more and less dense areas.
Now, let's take the example of automotive glass. The glass itself in most cars is about as close to flawless as glass can get. The glass in BMW windshields is polished to such a sheen, that water will not stick. Windscreen glass, however, is three layers. Two layers of high strength glass, in between which is sandwiched a thin layer of lexan. Lexan is a plastic, its purpose in auto glass is to prevent the windshield from turning your face into jerky if a rock hits it. Even the windshield in my fine Bavarian automobile suffers from the deplorable refraction of light which you so knowledgelessly speak of. It's a fact of life. All plastics do it. BTW, if you leave your iPod out in a hot car ever, you'll notice that the effect gets worse. The high heat generated inside the car does just enough to excite the molocules in the polycarbonate to the point of mild shifting.
Oh please spare me all that OT ramblings. You have not seen how bad it is. I'm surprised you can survive so long driving that "fine" crapmobile of yours if your windscreen indeed has such *good* optical qualities! Under reasonably direct lighting, it looks like a BLOODY CRACK. No less.
It's not with the polycarbonates, it is with the LCD, mind you.
Now repeat after me. iRiver can do it without the same issue. iRiver can do it without the same issue. iRiver can do it without the same issue.
Seems like either Apple is paying for very cheap labour, or can't even shell out decent dough to get good LCD panels. I actually opened that very same iPod up to investigate the cause. The distortion originates from the LCD panel. Not these 'polycarbonates in plastics will "clump" together to form pockets of more and less dense areas' crap.
Shoddy manufacture is shoddy manufacture, by your same argument it is acceptable to receive iPods that has air bubbles within the Lexan casing too!
SPUY767 said:
Bottom line, your arguments are foundless and without merit. Bottom line part deux, find something else to whine about. How about you start off with that strange dampness you feel when you stand out in the rain.
Oh, indeed, so you are likening a consumer's decision to go Apple akin to standing out in the chilling rain? That I agree. In fact if you are worth half as much as you claim to be, perhaps you should start an advertising campaign on the media to spread that point too.
And tell me, what kind of premium product doesn't even have a charger?
It is like buying that same fine Bavarian automobile which you claim to own.. without a cover for your gas tank.
Wah! You can still fill your gas no? You don't need that gas tank panel for the vehicle to operate. Nevermind the fact that someone can conveniently drop a lighted ciggy in and blow up your luxury vehicle, or what have you.
Likewise... in omitting the charger Apple is effectively telling customers, "Oh, we don't give a darn about the occasional need that you have to travel from time to time, we are assuming everywhere you go will have a USB port! And oh yes, it does not hinder normal operation".
Like I said, you can either choose to be truly premium, or be in the ranks of the other consumer crap. There is no middle path in this.
