Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Apple Prohibits Movie Rentals on Recent iPods

Apple's recent trend of fucking the customer over aggressive marketing, strikes again...

A number of iPod owners have discovered that their recently purchased iPods won't work with Apple's new iTunes video rentals, even though the iPods have video playback capabilities.

As of Tuesday, the issue had been raised multiple times in Apple's support forums. So far the company's only response has been to confirm that movie rentals work only with the iPhone, iPod touch, iPod classic and the third-generation iPod nano. Earlier iPods, including fifth-generation iPods sold before the September 2007 release of the sixth-generation iPod classic, are incompatible with rented videos.

"This is false advertising," says Raymond Blanchard, a disgruntled iPod owner. "I demand an upgrade or fix."


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