…may very well be the same person. If not, they must be distant relatives or play-cousins. I don’t know the man, but right now, he and just about anyone associated with his entire company have made my “don’t let me catch your ass in the street” list.*
*The one exception to this rule is the brilliant and lovely lady who kept me company as I waited to hear the inevitable news of my iPod’s demise. She’s cool…but the rest of the company remains on my list!*
I am upset, because my iPod died on Monday morning. I followed all of the instructions on the website, and then set up a time to get it repaired at the Apple store. That’s when I got the news: my warranty wouldn’t fully cover the damage, and I’d have to pay something like $140 to get a new one. Regardless of whether or not I chose to do that, all the music stored on that thing was no more. I went from having over 5,000 songs at my disposal, to whatever stuff I actually still have backed up on my computers, virtually overnight. Then, to have someone look you in the eye and tell you that you have a warranty, but it’s not even worth the paper it’s printed on is frustrating, to say the least.
I made a video rant about Apple and Steve Jobs the night before going to the store, and I had every intention of editing it and posting it here for everyone to see. Then, an event happened that made me truly believe that Steve got together with the rest of the tech gods and consipred a plot to ruin my day. I decided to update the software for my video camera before getting to work, and then all of the icons on my desktop disappeared!
Right now, I have to use the Windows Task Manager, just to open and close anything on my computer. As you can imagine, the video where I expressed my feelings, never got aired. Just for that, I’m going to try my best to remember the transcript of my rant for you:
Scene 1: Leon sitting in front of camera
“HEEEEEEELP!”
“HELP ME PLEEEEEEAAAASE!”
“HELP ME! SOME-BODY HELP ME!”
Scene 2: Slightly different angle with me showing iPod screen:
“Does anybody know what it means when your iPod looks like this? The red circle with the X in the middle? Like assassin’s crosshairs aimed at my music!”
Scene 3: Back to the first angle:
“I went from bragging about this thing yesterday, with it’s 80 gigs of excellence, to now feeling a slight urge to walk up to Steve Jobs and throat-chop him. I don’t want to actually threaten the man, because it might be a case of misplaced anger. Like getting robbed by a hooker, then getting mad at her pimp. Jobs might not be the person actually making defective Apple products, but he sure as hell is the one getting that money, just like Silky, Fleetwood, Sweets, and the rest of the cats you might see at the Players Ball or something.”
Scene 4:
“I’m not going to issue threats or completely boycott Apple for two reasons, Steve. Reason 1 is because I’m a graphic designer, and it wouldn’t make sense to stop using Macs completely. Reason 2 is because, well, you’re Steve Jobs and I’m ListenToLeon. What the hell kind fo jackass would I look like threatening you? You have a multi-billion dollar empire. I have about 35 people who read my blog. You could literally buy up my entire block and sell us back into slavery! Slavery 2.0 – The Remix. I know that challenging you would be like trying to win a gunfight with a butter knife.”
“However, if it comes down to me having to buy another MP3 player, iTunes will never see another dime of my money. I have a voracious appetite for music.”
“Five Thousand songs in three months! Do you even realize how many songs that is?! It’s 5,000! Some of which, I actually paid for! It’s like this…”
*extends hands with fingers spread apart*
“…but like, a thousand times!!! Replace my iPod, Steve!!!”
See…that would have been so much funnier if you could have seen it, instead of having to read it here. Alas, technology is taking Steve’s side. If any of you know of a better MP3 player than an iPod, please share details in the comments section. I’m still making up my mind as to whether or not I should help put one of Steve Jobs’ great-great-great-great grandchildren through college after all of this!
I love my Sansa SanDisk. It has more options like a FM radio, memory card slot and it has not had any compatibitly issues like I had with my I-pods. And my favorite advantage is that it was cheaper! After 2 I-pods crashing on me I wasn’t about to give Jobs-n-em another red cent for poor workmanship! Sorry for the rant…whew, got my pressure all up…
I don’t know why… but if you are using your TASK MANAGER to close out of programs… something tells me all of your new MP3 players should be scared of you and your virus infected computer…
LOL
I use a Sony mp3 player. I bought the cheap one, but it still holds. It holds music, videos, and pictures. There biggest mp3 is a 8gig which isn’t as much as the iPod, but me being a tech/sound wizard and all, i would have to say the Sony has much better sound quality. Plus you can upload music from any computer without deleting your playlist.
The oddest part of this situation is that in ranting about the IPOD you prompted a Google ad about the product. You can’t win.
you should try The Zune. Microsoft is moving up fast with this MP3
@Jeff…I wish I knew that before now! I have music on 2 different computers that I want to be on my iPod but I have to delete one comp’s playlist for the other…pisses me off :(
Sorry about your loss of music Leon, I feel your pain.
Poor baby. I’m not hearing that you had 5,000 songs. I cry at hearing that. I’m hoping to achieve that goal one day. Right now I only got about 400 songs on my tiny player. Try a Samsung. On that computer problem, last time that happened to me, I ended up first having the hard-drive erased and rebooted, quickly followed the next day after getting it back from the store having to replace the computer all together. Best of luck to yah bro.
@ nighteyeschaos, I have two laptops here, so even if I have to have this one erased, it won’t be the end of the world…Just irritating as HELL!!! That means, I’ll be adding Nokia employees to my “Don’t let me catch your ass in the street” list!
@ Miss Jay, that always irritated me about my iPod. All of those restrictions…
@ Allawishis, I’ll do some more research, but I heard that’s actually a good alternative.
@ HR, I don’t really care, since that ad money will go towards the purchase of a new MP3 player!
@ Jeff, thanks. If the sound quality is that much better, I’ll have to seriously consider Sony.
@ IMANI, I’m getting it looked at this weekend, so we’ll see. Cross your fingers and pray for me!
@ Sammy, I literally feel your pain right now! Thanks for the input, and sorry to get your blood pressure up!
That sucks, man. Apple’s gotten too greedy in the last few years. While their products look great, the quality has definitely started to go downhill.
my ipod didn’t work right from day one. the battery has to be recharged every few hours (even when I had an old school Walkman with Cassettes, the batteries lasted longer).
By the way, speaking of throat chopping…check out my friend’s jiu jitsu place when you get a chance. It’s right next to where Common Share used to be in DC.
See, had you put the complete unabridged King James Bible on that joint, or had you reserved more than 1 chinsy mb of space for gospel music (Never would have made it…), none of this woulda neva happened.
See you at homecoming, maybe?
yea my ipod crashed 5 yrs ago. if i see steve jobs in the street imma leg whip him and take his knees out. ole ho ass nigga.
Archos. Get a Archos they come with WIFI. Apple will contribute to the Apocalypse trust me… lol