Man runs out of space on iPod

A twenty-six year old Sydney man today found himself unable to upload any more tracks to his 60gb iPod. Terry Anderson of Mortdale encountered the calamity whilst attempting to upload Shakira's 'Hips Don't Lie' to his black video iPod.

"I was shocked" he told The Daily Worry. "You just don't expect this kind of thing. I mean, I'd heard stories about it happening to other people, but you just don't expect that kind of thing here in Australia. Apple say that this thing holds fifteen-thousand songs, but I say that's rubbish. I haven't counted exactly, but I'm sure I probably had less than fourteen thousand on there. I've had to delete 'The Very Best of Plastic Bertrand' to make room for my new Anthony Calea album, its a disgrace."

Apple spokeswoman Jessica Allsop, when asked to comment, insisted "we only claim that the 60gb model holds 'up to' fifteen-thousand songs, the actual number depends on the size of each song. Plus he should have bought the 80gb model, the 60gb iPod is not designed to accommodate Plastic Bertrand - it says so in the End User License Agreement embedded on page forty-two of the multilingual manual inside the shrinkwrapped box."

Mark Henderson SC of Henderson & Birch believes Apple is guilty of a vast conspiracy. "Everybody, absolutely everybody on the entire planet is sick to death of Apple's weasel-worded hyperbole. Its a clear breach of the Trade Practices Act. Apple have engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and should be persecuted at the Hague."

Steve Shields, spokesman for rival Creative Audio agreed. "Look, Apple have been inflating these figures for years, and something needs to be done about it. Their products are clearly inferior. I would say to people unhappy with Apple that they should try our new 60gb Zen model, which holds up to sixteen-thousand songs."

In the meantime Anderson says he'll just have to deal with a more limited selection of music during his train ride to Central each morning - "It takes six hours to get into the city these days. If the government won't fix the trains they could at least subsidise 80gb iPods."