Thursday, January 27, 2005

In my world Apple are Gods. They have managed to produce throughout the last twenty years some of the bravest and most sexy computers known to man; and I'm proud to have G4s at work and home. I'm also proud to say that when David wanted an MP3 player we called upon the Gods and a white and pure iPod was bought before us (having paid a couple of hundred quid to Amazon). And it was good.

'Was' being the right word, for last week the iPod decided it didn't want to communicate with the mothership. No matter what I tried our little pod-like friend wouldn't show up in iTunes or on the desktop; i reset, i rebooted, nothing.

Of course things only go wrong moments after the warranty runs out and the iPod did just that. Just 54 weeks after I bought it can't be updated because it won't acknowledge the existence of my Mac and now we have the 'opportunity' to pay to have it repaired by Apple.

So how much will it cost? In total (including shipping) it's gonna cost a bargain price of £195 to sort out. It's going to be cheaper to get a new iPod on eBay than it is to get the original one repaired. Considering the premium we paid to enjoy an iPod you would expect the thing to last longer than 12 months. Or not.

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