Today is a sad day, people. Today my iPhone died, after a good 12 months of faithful service. It’s Apple’s fault. The new iPhone OS update killed it, locking the device at about 1/8 of the “install complete” progress bar, and now I’m sad.
iPhone completed me. It brought joy to my largely meaningless existence. It kept me sane on long plane rides, when just last week I watched The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus and read several hundred pages of A Clash of Kings. Now iPhone is gone, and I’ll have to drive out to the Apple store and talk to some patchouli-scented unshaven goth Vegan hippie named “Wind” to get iPhone replaced. Or repaired. So I am sad. Sympathize, please.
Email the author of this post at steerpike@tap-repeatedly.com.
Haha! Oh look at me, responding ON MY IPHONE… 🙂
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I’m so sorry for your loss, I couldn’t live without mine!
That’s so sad Steerpike 🙁 OS4… er
… I mean iOS4 runs fine on
mine. And my Apple person didn’t
smell like patchouli he was citrus-scented. 😀
*pats Steerpike*
iBrick.
I genuinely dread the day when this happens to me, which could well be soon for my 2 year old 3G.
I have to admit though, reports about poor performance and the like were a major part of my decision not to upgrade my 3G to iOS4. It says something when it’s safer and more stable to jailbreak a 3G (and get more features for the trouble..) than it is to upgrade to Apple’s official offering!
Sad day indeed. I really sympathize. Neither I nor my ex have had any trouble with the iPhone OS’s, or the hardware either, and we’ve been with them from the beginning, not that 3 years is a long time, but…. I think this is nature’s way of telling you that it is time for the newest iPhone with all its spiffy goodness. You will fall in love all over again.
Guess what! The Geniuses at the Apple Store have magicks and powers unknown to us. They took my iPhone and plugged it into a mysterious device which slurped out all the poisons and fixed it right up. I trundled it on home, re-synced, and all is well!
Spike, I was thinking that I might have to go the iPhone 4 route. I knew I was too weak to refuse one if they tried to sell it. Luckily it didn’t come to that.
In other news, the Genius who fixed my iPhone was actually kind of fat and hirsute and didn’t smell like anything in particular. The Geniusette who greeted me and took me to this iPhone-repairing specter, however, was very cute and smelled like flowers. She did not give me her number.
Yes they have the magical /root fo dah reboot.
Just played on a new iPhone 4.0… Really don’t like the look of the black one, and the shape is not as comfortable. Slightly sad panda about that 🙁
I still haven’t figured out how to multitask or sort items into folders.
Multitask – double tap the home button.
Sort items – just drag and drop one app icon onto the other, and it’ll slap them into the folder.
Yay, I am glad iPhone is fixed!
We need iPhone. We are lost without him. I remember that time he navigated us through Chicago. Then there was that time he helped us pick a restuarant to eat at in Indianapolis. Those were good times…
By the way, are you implying some sort of negative connotation about vegan hippies? ARE YOU?
I love how Apple is twisting and wriggling over the antenna kerfuffa on the iPhone 4. First it’s our fault for hold the phone wrong. Now it’s the signal’s fault for not being as strong as they swore it was. And they will let you return it after 30 day of purchase cause they are good guys…and because they always have. Apple is really beginning to creep me out. I can’t put my finger on it though which is totally cause I am using my finger incorrectly.
Apples PR department is amazing. The could wriggle out of a vice.
True. Apple marketing could rule the world if they so desired. They are scary good.