Designed Obsolescence
590663
These headphones were used infrequently for running, after thirteen months the microphone and connection to Siri stopped working. Upon contacting Redfox they told me the headphones were out of warranty by one month and that I could purchase anew pair for half price. Even if I'd used the headphones everyday  for four eight hours a day for thirteen months (which I did not) they should not fail like this. This is a poorly made product, designed obsolescence, failing immediately after the warranty period. Avoid this company their customer service is very poor, and buy something that is designed to last beyond the twelve month warranty period.
3060678
Cool design, effective mechanism.  But sadly, the stretch gave way and now we are left with a need to replace the "cord".  The rest of it seems so sturdy.  Too bad the planned obsolescence had to show.
4817631
We've bought several of the earlier version over the past couple of years with good results. Recently, though, they changed the GUI from a very nice and easy-to-use design to something that appears to have been designed by a frustrated game-box artist with his head in the clouds (or somewhere).

The new GUI is littered with bizarre and unwanted extra garbage, predefined folders, and goofy graphics, and it's impossible to figure out how to do the most basic things that were easy with the old GUI, for example set up an NFS share with custom squash parameters. And they won't let you roll back the firmware to the earlier, user-friendly version.

In addition, recent units have had a significantly higher than acceptable rate of hard-drive failures.

Until I/Omega comes to its senses and allows you to install the earlier firmware and uses reliable drives, we will avoid this product.
1855053
This review is for both the older version (no blue lcd display) and newer version with the blue lcd display.
The idea and functional design of the web power switch is very useful from both auto reboot and remote power control point of views. The auto ping and scripting are technically sound.
I have owned seven of these units (both older and newer versions of the web power switches) in the last four years. Three of the older version has failed after about little over two years time. The failure mode are the a/c output "stuck" in the "OFF" mode. The newer versions have not shown the same issue so far. From my best guess is that the failure occurred when the a/c power line experiencing a rapid off/on cycle. This would tends to cause the internal switching supply to fail. This is a big problem for me since I manage the remote sites with many vital equipment. Each time this happens, a lots of efforts were put into resolving the problem.
I have since toss away all the older version web power switches and replaced  with the new version. I hope the manufacture has resolved the problem for the new version (v. 7).
3994914
Ageless iconic design, looks great and feels good in hand.  Outdated ergonomics and visibility of LCD screen, but, who cares?  It's beautiful.
4961368
Conceptually elegant. Even Jobs would be envious of the aesthetics.  Unfortunately the engineering and manufacturing specifications are wholly deficient.  The cover will develop fatigue/stress fractures at the corners within 6-8 months and parts will separate at the four corners within 10 months.  Moshi replaced my first cover.  Not the second with identical material failure.  Buyer beware.
1143363
Let's call this a long term review, if not an epitaph.
Outside looks/finish: Great, even more so if you went for optional LED display
Inside: Clutter of drive boxes, a mess of un-managed wiring, overall bad design makes it difficult to add even 1 hard drive
Reliability: Within less than a year, the fan(s) noise became disturbingly loud, and had to retire it after 3 years because it sounded like a 747 taking off
Air flow: The all important factor when choosing a computer case, this must be the worst possible feature of this case, as main drive runs at a warm 40c, and secondary drive a whopping over 50c, sometime as high as 54c. This should be marketed as a hard disk toaster oven...

Basically a great looking piece of trash, I will never buy this brand again,
917391
Bought a remanufactured Nitrus for a bargain price, but it was no bargain.  It died suddenly and for no apparent reason after seven weeks - no wonder they only give a 30 day warranty!  It's a real shame since the design, sound and features are great.  Yes, I read the reviews so I knew about the reliability problems, even with the new (non-refurbished) units.

I figured that if I took good care of it it might last awhile.  I was wrong.  Caveat emptor, indeed.
1419701
I feel as though Amazon has planned obsolescence in the original Kindle. I loved mine, enjoyed the availability of books, photo storage, videos, and etc. One day it wouldn't charge, went to work, came home and  it wouldn't even start up. When I called Amazon support (in a foreign country) their sugggestion was to order a new unit, not help me with the charging issue. Needless to say, I ordered a new unit with higher storage availability. The graphics aren't as classy, they leave a lot to be desired. Also when transfering my data to the new unit, the data was misconfigured and spacial. As an example, if I wanted to play a certain song, I had to go through several steps to "find" the song amongst the others I downloaded. A real hassle. Furthermore, when I was given the descrip[tion of the replacement unit, I was not given the option to order the premiium Kindle that is around $300. which I would have preferred. Not a happy camper.
2245846
Quicken Home and Business 2015 continues the Intuit tradition of layering on only modestly useful incremental functionality to a bloated, resource-sapping codebase, all driven by a business model that forces users to upgrade every 36-48 months by decommissioning support for older versions.  For longtime users of Quicken, there's nothing new to care much about. And let's face it, anyone looking for a personal finance software/app has been steering clear of this kind of retro standalone software for years, leaving legacy users in the soup, with Intuit milking every dollar they can wrest from the dwindling installed base.  Mint was once a promising alternative, but I'd not invest another second or penny in any franchise owned by Intuit in its current incarnation. If ever there was a software/app segment begging for disruption, it's what's left of the Quicken franchise/monopoly.
2017923
This case looked great and it's nicely built but mac stopped making computers this size for a couple of years now. This product is simply obsolete.
2743965
I want to warn other customers about this overpriced, short lived, device.

My new Apple Mouse died after three years of gentle, careful, clean use. Scroller still works.

Apple Care told me to feed it some cheese to see if it would come back to life.

More planned obsolescence, disposable e-waste from Apple, one of the worlds biggest polluters.

Apple should show corporate responsibility by building longevity, recyclability and trade-in policies to have a serious impact on pollution reduction and resource degradation.

One of the best ways to reduce global warming and environmental decline is to make product to have long lives, and to build recycling into the engineering of products (trade-in buy-back programs).

The present use of "shuck and jive" marketing of electronics, with an endless parade of "new and improved" iterations, creates serious environmental problems. Sadly, marketing trumps logic most of the time...

These are horribly overpriced - get the Amazon Basics Wi-Fi USB mouse - almost as good, (except the scroller is funky)., and cost 5 times less!
4625703
Owned this for just over a year.  Worked well for about half of it.  Obsolete in both software, protection, capacity and weight.
4553911
Ive owned apple for over 8 years, and I've got to say that the last three computer I have bought from them have been some of the  worse computers I have owned. There quality in the last few years has really took a nose dive. Not just hardware failures, but every operating system has become more bogged down, slow, and so unresponsive. I remember back when I would upgrade to a newer OS with my computer it would actually make it run better. Back in the tiger and panther days. Not just are they double the price of a windows computer, but they seem to have more and more acclimating issues. I won't be purchasing a new computer from apple in the future.
587150
Beautiful design for it's time. I must say the build quality of Sony products as of late has not been on par with older models. Step up your game Sony!!!
1471376
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT! This is the perfect example of a good idea gone terribly wrong due to shoddy manufacturing and abysmal customer service. I have gone through two Liberty units in less than 3 years. They both stopped working after a few months and AmBio was no help. Built-in obsolescence, anyone? I am not a believer in big government, but this company should be under an injunction to not sell anything until their product passes 1960's era quality control standards (for starters). Then maybe I'll consider buying a new one.
4098422
This is a GREAT short term product so buyer beware.  I'm 100% convinced this product was built with planned obsolescence in mind.  The sound is absolutely phenomenal for its size and comes with a 1 year warranty.  8 months after my warranty expired it started randomly shutting off regardless of whether or not I was using bluetooth or the auxiliary connection.  This was not a result of the "auto turn-off," feature which I had turned off months prior.  It would randomly turn off with a fully charged battery with no cadence or pattern to the length of time.  5 mins, 20 mins, 10 mins, 15 mins, etc.  After doing online research, I found a slew of customers with the exact same issue.  My option was to buy a new one, or pay Bose $79 to fix it...  8 months after the warranty conveniently expired.  When as many people have complained of the same issue on various blogs months after the warranty expires - that smells like planned obsolescence.  Like I said - the sound quality is phenomenal and it works really well in the short term, but a $200 product shouldn't last for less than 2 years.