According to iMechanic.com, the iPod touch I purchased a month ago has just under 800 days left until it leaves this world behind, touching the lives of so many people during its short stay here. Ha! "Touching" the lives of…sigh…never mind. It apparently also only has 92% of the battery capacity remaining. What a rip!
Anyway, you can use this site to input your iPod’s serial number, how often you use it, how many times you’ve dropped it, and whether or not it’s gotten wet, and you’ll see how much time you’ve got until it dies. It’s not an exact science of course, but it’s interesting nonetheless. I also found it amusing that you can add the death date to your Google Calendar. That’ll be something to see approximately 2.19 years from now.
The iPod Death Clock [iPodMechanic.com] via Gizmodo
Planned obsolescence is a wonderful thing for companies but not so much for the consumer… I miss the days of my all metal boom box that would dent the concrete it fell upon instead of the other way around… now that I think about it… maybe something that breaks before its time isn’t so bad for others when you got Milli Vanilli blasting away into your left ear.
Jon
Well at least I have a few more years left in my iPod. I remember when things used to be made to last. I still have an old 8088 PC that works to this day. Man things used to be built like tanks.