When Technology Fails
I think my iPhone hates me. It’s developed this new trick, recently, of telling me it has reception, but refusing to dial out or receive calls; I have to restart it to get it to work. Similarly, the phone won’t ring, and then all of a sudden, there’s a missed call and a voicemail from out of nowhere. I’m telling you: either my iPhone hates me, or else it’s broken, and that’s something that I’m not willing to consider a possibility just yet.
Of course, just saying that means that it’s probably broken. I shouldn’t be surprised, it’s probably made with some kind of short shelf-life to make sure that I upgrade the software and the hardware as often as possible (In fact, come to think of it, the problems started as soon as I started ignoring iTunes’ subtle reminders that there was a new OS upgrade available that I could download and install. Is it possible that the phone somehow knows?). I remember being told by some BestBuy or some similar store that I can’t remember the name of, in a very suspicious “I shouldn’t tell you this, but…” way, that all computer equipment is built to essentially self-destruct after a set period of time (3 years, according to him) to ensure that you have to buy new stuff. This may have been his way of apologizing for the price of the new printer he was selling me, but still; the point was made.
I like to think, mind you, that things like iPhones, with their high price tags and their ridiculous monthly charges, would be built to last, and that Apple – personified by that nice Justin Long in the television commercials – wouldn’t have created an inbuilt death just to make sure I’d buy another one sooner rather than later… and then I see things like this.
Time to start saving up for a new phone, perhaps.
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