Stuff and things
Feb. 16th, 2011 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So my iPod battery has been dying on me. I have it out for half and hour and it's nearly out of juice. This sort of sudden discharge has been happening on and off for the past few weeks so I figured the battery is fried and I should replace it.
I bop down to the Apple store, let them look at it and they're like "yeah, sometimes the battery goes and needs replacing". Great, so they're going to replace the battery. They charge me $60 which seems high, but hey, it's Apple so there you go. But they don't go into the back of the store to replace the battery, they just hand me a brand-new iPod and say "there you go, have a nice day".
And for a moment I'm thinking "hey! My iPod! Give me back my iPod! It's got all my stuff on it!". I'm thrown for a loop in the store for a moment before I realize it doesn't matter. All the music is on my laptop back home, I just sync it up and I'm good to go. What's important about the iPod isn't the iPod (or even that it's an iPod brand MP3 player), but the data on the iPod. As long as I can access the data, then I don't have to be tied to a specific thing. Just hook up and go to town.
Yes, it would be nice if I had wiped my iPod or verified that they did it (I doubt they'd do anything malicious and there's nothing on my iPod that's private or incriminating except my love of ABBA and the Spice Girls). Yes, it could be that the iPod had my only copy of some piece of music. Yes, seems terribly wasteful to just hand me a new thing when the old one just needs a new battery. Still, it was my moment of future shock where stuff doesn't matter as much as data.
later
Tom
So my iPod battery has been dying on me. I have it out for half and hour and it's nearly out of juice. This sort of sudden discharge has been happening on and off for the past few weeks so I figured the battery is fried and I should replace it.
I bop down to the Apple store, let them look at it and they're like "yeah, sometimes the battery goes and needs replacing". Great, so they're going to replace the battery. They charge me $60 which seems high, but hey, it's Apple so there you go. But they don't go into the back of the store to replace the battery, they just hand me a brand-new iPod and say "there you go, have a nice day".
And for a moment I'm thinking "hey! My iPod! Give me back my iPod! It's got all my stuff on it!". I'm thrown for a loop in the store for a moment before I realize it doesn't matter. All the music is on my laptop back home, I just sync it up and I'm good to go. What's important about the iPod isn't the iPod (or even that it's an iPod brand MP3 player), but the data on the iPod. As long as I can access the data, then I don't have to be tied to a specific thing. Just hook up and go to town.
Yes, it would be nice if I had wiped my iPod or verified that they did it (I doubt they'd do anything malicious and there's nothing on my iPod that's private or incriminating except my love of ABBA and the Spice Girls). Yes, it could be that the iPod had my only copy of some piece of music. Yes, seems terribly wasteful to just hand me a new thing when the old one just needs a new battery. Still, it was my moment of future shock where stuff doesn't matter as much as data.
later
Tom
