Destructive Incorporated

Apple has been around for a long time trying their little hearts out to sell products and, for most of their history, they have been unsuccessful. Granted they sold a few computers, but they were far from successful. Until the realease of the most popular music player ever to hit the consumer market...a little thing known as the iPod. Since it's release, Apple has sold more than 50 million iPod units. What am I getting at? This is the preface to the iPod adventure I embarked upon earlier today.

My sister has a 2GB iPod nano. Today she called me and asked me if I would come over and help her get some songs onto it because it was acting up. When I got there, it was not behaving normally and itunes was not recognizing it when I plugged it in. The computer was not the normal computer that she usually connects to, so I downloaded the iPod software and commenced an iPod update. While updating the iPod, the computer crashed and hilarity ensued.
Once the updater crashed, all the songs were erased off of the iPod. The unit itself, however, seemed to be behaving normally. So I restarted the computer and plugged the iPod back in, only to find out that the drive had been corrupted and there was nothing I could do. The updater wouldn't recognize the iPod to restore it, and there is NO way you can manually restore it to default settings. Here is where Steven Jobbs flexes his hold on pop culture, tightens his grip, and soffocates me. And believe me...I hate him for it.

The only solution to the iPod problem is to bring it into an Apple store, where you will be forced to wait one hour for everyone else to get their iPod questions answered and their units fixed. While waiting, you will be forced to look at some of the most beautiful, over priced, sorry excuses for working computers. You will see $1,000 monitors priced for three times what they are worth and probably about 20 Emo kids roaming the store, 2 of which MIGHT have the slightest clue how to use a Macintosh computer. And the reality of the grip that the Almighty Jobbs has on you will begin to sink in.

If you can't tell, I'm a little upset about my iPod experience and, though I do own one, I stick by the motto that lets me sleep at night: "If Bill Gates had built it, I could have fixed it."

Think Differently.
If they can't speak English, how are they going to build me a decent computer? :\