Filed under: iPod Family, Apple Financial
$45 credit for Canadian iPod owners
Canadian owners of first-, second- or third-generation iPods may want to keep an eye on their email boxes (provided that they purchased said iPod(s) before June 24th, 2004). The Montreal Gazette is reporting that up to 80,000 Canadians (including 11,310 Québécois) could be eligible for a $45 credit from Apple as the result of two class action lawsuits. The suit involved the iPod battery's dramatic decrease in capacity after two years of use.Though the deal is still tentative, it is expected to be finalized by a Montreal court on May 26th.
[Via iPodNN]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kot said 8:05AM on 5-13-2008
I have 2 old iPod (1G and 3G) but I don't have any invoice, prove of purchase or anything that could help me to get my hand on a rebate...
what can I do?
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Mark said 4:18PM on 5-13-2008
Ditto with what he said. I have the iPod still (physically) and can provide the serial number, etc. I've already paid for the battery replacement myself on it (a third party, more maha solution), which cost me $110.
Tournevis said 9:00AM on 5-13-2008
A slight, but very common error slipped into your report above. The correct English-language term is "Quebecker", not "Québécois". The former is a geographic term, which applies here, since you are referring to residents of Québec. The latter, in the English language, is exclusively to be used as an ethnic term, which does not apply here, nor in most of the instances where it is currently used.
Please correct.
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Simon Arch said 11:20AM on 5-13-2008
From Wikipedia: "A Québécois or Quebecois (pronounced [kebeˈkwa]), or in the feminine Québécoise ([kebeˈkwɑːz]), is a native or resident of the Canadian province of Quebec, but usually refers in English to a French-speaking or French Canadian native of the province."
kot said 6:09PM on 5-13-2008
I'm a Québécois. And saying the word "Québécois" or "Quebeker" is the same thing. One is in french, the other in english. French-Canadian is good too, but we don't see ourselves as "canadians", we much prefer being Québécois.
btw, most of us speaks english too. But french is somehow "mandatory".
Tournevis said 5:33PM on 5-13-2008
but usually refers in English to a French-speaking or French Canadian native of the province, which is what I was saying Simon Arch.
Please correct.
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Simon Arch said 12:56AM on 5-14-2008
"Usually". It means whatever the person using the word meant it to mean. In this case, it obviously means people from Quebec.