{"id":84976,"date":"2005-09-17T08:38:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T23:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84976"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:56","slug":"really-broken-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20050917\/everyday-events\/really-broken-ipod","title":{"rendered":"Really Broken! iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_11578590_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_11578590_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It broke again, and happily the repair is complete.<br \/>\nI purchased an iPod (U2 model) and used it carefully every day.<br \/>\nThere were frequent skips that shouldn&#8217;t happen with digital audio, and eventually it wouldn&#8217;t play at all.<br \/>\nI contacted support and they processed a replacement.<br \/>\nI never dropped it or gave it any impact, and this happened in just one month.<br \/>\nWhen the new one arrived, I stopped carrying it around and only used it indoors to be extra careful.<br \/>\nJust four months later! It broke again. Nothing would respond. I couldn&#8217;t even reset it.<br \/>\nIt just died suddenly.<br \/>\nAnother new one came, but&#8230; is it really going to be okay?<br \/>\nHardware does fail physically, but I have to wonder if this is happening too fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;It broke again, and happily the repair is complete. I purchased an iPod (U2 model) and used it carefully every day. There were frequent skips that shouldn&#8217;t happen with digital audio, and eventually it wouldn&#8217;t play at all. I contacted support and they processed a replacement. I never dropped it or gave it any impact, and this happened in just one month. When the new one arrived, I stopped carrying it around and only used it indoors to be extra careful. Just four months later! It broke again. Nothing would respond. I couldn&#8217;t even reset it. It just died suddenly. Another new one came, but&#8230; is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-84976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}