I knew about the "planned obsolescence" of bulbs and nylon stockings, but this video had more details.

I gotta call B.S. on the "everlasting LED bulb" comment he makes at the end. I've had many LED bulbs fail after 2 years when they are supposed to last at least 8. Most of them Feit brand. Sure I could request a warranty replacement, but I'd have to pay shipping both ways, which costs more than getting a new one.

Apple has had class-action battery lawsuits almost every year since the iPod introduction. I did take advantage when they had $30 battery replacement for iPhones, but guess what - that's gone back up to "overpriced" as of last year. At least they support iOS devices with 5 years of software updates. Google has always been worse, and some 3rd party (HTC for example) ship new Android phones (at least their cheaper non-flagship models) with outdated software, and never release a patch.

I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm pretty sure parrots can talk like humans in the same basic way my ipod can rap like Eminem.

His name is Floyd and his shit is tight.

Impressive, but kinda funny that it identifies an iPhone as an iPod

For about 3-4 months now, when this song comes on the radio or my ipod scramble, the volume increases markedly. It's odd.

As a former employee under both Jobs and Cook, I can tell you exactly what is wrong with Apple.

When I started with Apple, every thing we were concerned with was innovating. What could we come up with next? Sure, there were plenty of misses, but when we hit, we hit big. It was ingrained in the culture of the company. Managers wanted creative people, people who might not have been the best worker bee, but that could come up with new concepts easily. Sometimes corporate rules were broken, but if you could show that you were actively working towards something new, then you were OK.

Fast forward to when Cook started running the show, Steve was still alive, but had taken a backseat really. Metrics became a thing. Performance became a watchword. Managers didn't want creative thought, they wanted people who would put their nose to the grindstone and only work on things that headquarters suggested. Apple was no longer worried about innovating, they were concerned with 'maintaining'.

Two examples which might help illustrate further:

1. One of the guys I was working with was constantly screwing around in any free moment with iMovie. He was annoyed at how slow it was in rendering, which at the time was done on the CPU power. Did some of his regular work suffer, yeah. But he was praised because his concepts helped to shift some of the processing to the GPU and allow real time effects. This functionality made iMovie HD 6 amazing to work with.

2. In a different section of the company, the support side, a new manager improved call times, customer service stats, customer satisfaction, and drastically cut down on escalations. However, his team was considered to be:

a. making the other teams look bad

and

b. abusing the use of customer satisfaction tools, like giving a free iPod shuffle (which literally costs a few dollars to make) to extremely upset customers.

Now they were allowed to do all of these things, no rules were being broken. But Cook was mostly in charge by that point and he was more concerned with every damn penny. So, soon after this team blew all the other teams away for the 3rd month in a row, the new manager was demoted and the team was broken up, to be integrated into other teams willy-nilly.

Doing smart things was no longer the 'thing'. Toeing the line was. Until that changes, nothing is going to get better for Apple. I know I personally left due to stress and health issues from the extreme pressure that Cook kept sending downstream on us worker bees. My job, which I had loved, literally destroyed my health over a year.

Barely enough room in that backpack to stow my iPod.

I found their "White Pepper Ice Cream" on my iPod, I had never heard of them and I have no idea how it got there but it was a nice surprise. Thanks for posting this.

Ah, I thought it still had a phone service. I have the original iPod Touch G1 given to me a few years ago.

What about iOS like an 1G iPod Touch?

I think so, yes, but the other side was held in by the ipod holder/band.

You are not hearing things....heard it, too ...that and, 'nar-nar.'

Excellent cover Jordan, putting it on the ipod now.

The thumbnail is an ipod dock that enjoys the music... skip ahead to 15:30ish for it if the rest bores you

You did it!!!! Now I hope you make a habit of sharing more songs with me because all the ones you've given me so far I LOVE!! I need to download them right now and put them on my ipod!

My pleasure! I'm impressed that you can even get your phone to work for typing a message here ever! I was away this weekend and tried logging in with my ipod touch and I couldn't do anything other than watch the videos on the first page! I wish I could type messages!!