{"id":656,"date":"2003-11-25T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T21:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2003-11-25T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T21:27:25","slug":"ipodsdirtysecretcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/25\/ipodsdirtysecretcom\/","title":{"rendered":"ipodsdirtysecret.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is too too funny.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/archives\/010499.php#010499\" target=\"_blank\">The iPod&#8217;s dirty secret #<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frustrated that Apple wants to charge him $255 to replace the dead battery in his 18-month old iPod, one guy has decided to strike back with a guerrilla marketing campaign of his own &#8212; he&#8217;s been stencilling the words &#8220;iPods Unreplaceable Battery Lasts Only 18 Months&#8221; on Apple ads all over his town. Check out this video chronicling his efforts.<br \/>\nWatch [Via BoingBoing]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks Dirk)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.info.apple.com\/support\/applecare_products\/service\/ipod_service.html\" target=\"_blank\">iPod Repair Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Battery Service: $99.00 USD: labor, parts, and a 90-day guarantee on materials and workmanship, plus $6.95 shipping. $105.95 USD total. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is too too funny. The iPod&#8217;s dirty secret # Frustrated that Apple wants to charge him $255 to replace the dead battery in his 18-month old iPod, one guy has decided to strike back with a guerrilla marketing campaign of his own &#8212; he&#8217;s been stencilling the words &#8220;iPods Unreplaceable Battery Lasts Only 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}