Glenn Derene wrote a rant about the problem with modern technology – it is virtually irreparable when broken. The best Apple can do, apparently, is just send broken iPods back for recycling, so complex are their miniscule innards. Derene writes:
The problem began almost imperceptibly several months ago. I found myself pushing my first generation iPhone’s “home” button two, sometimes three times before the device would respond. Shortly thereafter, the “sleep/wake” button became less responsive as well. As time went on, I was pushing the buttons four or five times before I’d get a response. They didn’t respond to an ordinary push: I’d have to exert multiple foot-pounds of force and hold it to get any sort of reaction from the increasingly fickle iPhone
He took the device to the Apple store and the Genii told him it was out of warranty. He bought a new one and after a bit of soul searching he tore the old one apart to find… lint. He points out that all Jobs had to do was add an O-ring to this thing but noooo. Poor Glenn had to suffer. I had a similar situation with a “wet” iPhone that Apple wouldn’t touch. It’s very frustrating. In the old days, a man would take a wrench to this thing and fix it, damn it.
Interestingly, I actually told Glenn to get a case for his. Some people…
Maybe you should take better care of your tech purchases.
We have become a disposable society and your mindset is no different..
I clean my phone EVERY WEEK! and have no problems.
In closing if you are one of those who just does not feel that you (GOD FORBID) are the responsible party for the misuse of said phone you can always purchase Apple Care for your phone which extends the warranty.
iJah420 says maybe you should be more careful with you stuff.
have you ever heard of the term USER ERROR!!!!! SOME PEOPLE YOU JUST CAN’T REACH!!!! WHINERS I JUST CAN’T STOMACH.
WHY are you YELLING
Because Glenn should take better care of his shit.
Kids today have NO IDEA. Maybe instead of picking up a game controller you should pick up (A BOOK) like “The Grapes of Wrath” and actually READ IT and Learn something.
Like What its REALLY like to have NOTHING.
Instead I have to read such posting from a whining sniveling tech geek that does not know how to take care of things and then passes the buck and BLAMES the Co. that created the device.
That iswhy I was yelling.
I do not have much good to say about people like Glenn.
iJah420 says take responsibility for your own actions.
Poor Glenn had to SUFFER!!!!
GMAF BREAK!!!
iJah420 says SUFFER….. yeah OK.
Why are you even bothering. Honestly thats a pretty serious complaint from someone who dislikes complainers/whiners. If you wanted to get a point across [not to say you didn't] I would have advised a simple reply not a immature rambling.
I found this post pretty enticing. I’m amazed apple hadn’t taken the lint issue into consideration. Hell the thing is in your pocket the whole day bathing in lint [unless your ijah420, god knows what he does with his], lets get real. Im going to continue to use the things i purchase, ovcourse with a general regard for its well-being, but in no way shape or form drive myself insane over a scratch from the keys to my car or a few fingerprints on the back.
For a smoker you are pretty irate…and mean. Smoke better shit I guess?
taha? geeks and wireless?
I’m not sure I catch your drift Schiffres…care to elaborate?
Please stop referring to yourself in third person iJah420MoronFace. You sound ridiculous and I can’t take any of your rants seriously because you sound like a 13-year-old posing behind the 420 moniker of marijuana.
Cleaning your iPhone everyday won’t help, unless you completely take it apart everyday to remove the lint that went inside. Maybe you should try putting it in a “Ziploc” sandwich bag before putting it in your pocket like iJah420 does just before her is dropped of at the “short bus” stop.
iJah420 is a witless idiot.
Apple should have taken steps to be sure that the Phone would not fill with lint. This is a design flaw. The kind of thing that results in class action cases.
Apple should of also made it easier to open the unit and clean it. But then that would make the battery easy to change and we don’t want that.
Apple should have a longer warranty. You pay a premium price for this thing and get told that it’s your fault when it fails. If you buy a Lexus don’t you expect better care and longer life? Why do people put up with this treatment?
Apple could have a refresh and referb service instead of just saying, “Too bad, buy another one”. How about $50 or $99 to have your phone cleaned and restored to a new condition? But no. Just bend over and say “Thank you Steve, may I have another”
Lemmings.
The worst enemy of every cell phone is water. I have a silicon case on my iPhone and it prevents water to get in. And yes, I agree that one should take a better care of his/her iPhone – I treat it more like a “little Mac laptop” than like my previous dumbphone (simple Nokia, I used to throw it on the bad when coming home).
my comments at http://www.commentino.com/orim
Anyone who is an engineer knows that the more complex something is the more likely it is to malfunction, but the various modes companies use to enforce scheduled obsolescence, maintenance, & in some cases replacement really disturbs me. Under the best of conditions cellphones are replaced every two years, which produces a mass of hazardous waste which most often does not get recycled… instead it gets “sent away” to somewhere where we just don’t have to deal with it. There is very little actual “repair” these days, with many companies choosing instead to simply replace a damaged part or device (as it looks better on the balance sheets to be distributing a larger number of parts). The majority of citizens do not do the basic preventative maintenance work which must be done in order to ensure a long life to objects they own, much like most people neglect their car. It is made quite difficult, with warranty rules and tool obscurity, to even diagnose what is wrong with a piece of geekery. Hell, most of the time the first answer is to reinstall the software, and if that doesn’t work to simply replace the item with a new or refurbished (new electronics) item. Nobody even updates their firmware or BIOS anymore.
This is why I suggest protest in the form of modding. If we have to pay for it, which we do, then make it yours… draw art on the case, add new parts, and modify the software. Don’t let others tell you what to do with what you own.
iphones are high-tec pieces of equipment and you have a responsibility to take extra special care of it. You can send your broken iphone to apple or repair companies like ipodjuice.com but in the end if you don’t take proper care of your phone, you get what you deserve.
My first comment was directed at our angry Rastafari btw
ah never mind. i got man who goes by taha. keep it real tho.