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TIME runs a story on new iPod killers - but their story shows that complete lack of research happens in traditional media as well as in blogs - just look at the following L

TIME.com: Attack of the Anti-iPods -- Apr. 11, 2005:
What about iPod's notorious lack of endurance between recharges, the sealed case that means you may have to scrap the thing if the internal battery dies, and the proprietary digital-music format that joins you at the hip to Apple's iTunes online store?

How wrong can you be?

- Battery life on my iPods - 5 hours or so. Maybe some of the others are better, but then again my iPod is extremely easy to recharge.

- Scrap the thing if the battery dies??? Hey - even Apple offers new batteries, and if you go to Amazon they sell batteries!

- Joins you to the hip with Apple's online store???? - I have never bought a song there, and I have still managed to fill my iPod.

TIME - your journalists disappoint me. Employ someone who do their fact checking.