I knew it would happen eventually, I sure did drop it enough. Although, I don’t think that is the cause. I think it just died of old age. I used this player for three years, and it has served me well, the excellent audio quality and the amazing battery life combined together to make this the best audio player I had ever used. Three years doesn’t seem like much time, but in portable electronic years, I think its a ripe old age, what with planned obsolescence and all. The wikipedia article linked there states that “it must be decided early in the design of a complex product how long it is designed to last so that each component can be made to those specifications.”
Aw geez.
Well, the power button component of my player was apparently spec’d less rigorously than the rest of the player. I mean, even with planned obsolescence, any engineer could figure out that the power button slider was going to probably take more abuse than any other button on the thing. At least I foiled Cowon’s plans, because as of this date, there have been two other iAudio models since my original purchase of my iAudio 7,(the iAudio U5 and the iAudio 9). So, I’ve bypassed the planned obsolescence a little bit, by not prematurely tossing out my iAudio 7 as so much disposable tech for the shiny new thing. In fact it looks as if Amazon has my same exact model on sale right now, so I think I’ll double-down on this one.
Maybe you should get an audio-player that I can figure out how to use!
Enough of this Korean-bashing!