I’m not really sure which one of us is the problem, but I’m in a nasty spot. The thing is, I’m hooked on the iPod Nano. I love it. I want to marry it and have its babies. I want nothing more than to snuggle up next to it in bed at night, kiss it, and make breakfast for it every morning. However, the sad state of affairs is that we’re obviously as compatible as oil and water, so now we have to part. And it sucks.
OK, this is the deal: After about a year of faithful service, my iPod Mini chucked in the towel. The battery pretty much gave up the ghost. When it was new, it would happily play music for over 10 hours straight after charging for a couple of hours, but gradually it did a switcheroo on me - now I’d have to charge the bloody thing overnight just to get it to work for a couple of hours before flatlining. Well, I’m bemused, to say the least… aren’t these things supposed to last for more than a year? Turns out they aren’t. Well, after searching through plenty of adecdotal evidence on the web, the conclusion is that yes, for heavy-duty users, like me, the Mini’s battery goes dead in about a year to a year and a half. That’s pretty much how it is. :smack: I think, well, that’s hardly very impressive, but I decide to accept this sorry state of affairs as a fact of life and take some constructive action. My options for rectifying the situation are either to get one of those battery replacement things, or to spring for a new iPod. Which means a Nano.
Oh, my… a brand new, shiny, tiny Nano. I can’t resist. I take the plunge. I go to the store, pay the man his huge pile of money, bring my new Nano home, open the box… and fall in love.
A bad idea, as it turns out. A very, very bad idea indeed.
To cut a short story even shorter: Within 24 hours of purchase, my brand new shiny, tiny Nano is a high-tech piece of junk. Broken screen. Great. I curse, I swear, I kick myself. I search the web for solutions. Turns out it’s a known issue. I return the damn thing, wait a month , and get a new one for free. OK, happiness is back… for now.
Yeah. Not so fast, Buster. A week and a half later, and the damned piece of crap is broken again! Now it won’t start. I’ve tried everything - resetting, rebooting, reinstalling, recharching… the whole shebang. About five times. No-go. It’s dead. It’s going back to the store again tomorrow.
I don’t know if the problem is that I’m the biggest klutz in the known universe, or if the iPod Nano is the most useless piece of crap ever built, but in any case, Apple is getting no more of my money. Enough is enough. This time, I’m going for something idiot-proof with extra padding from some competing brand. Gizmos made from eggshell are obviously not the thing for me.
I’ll sure miss it, though. The lovely touch wheel, the sleek lines, the perfectly construed menus, the cute little 2gb flash drive… Oh, fuck. Damn, I think I need a drink.