Unlikely Words » the lawrence arms http://www.unlikelywords.com A blog with delusions of grandeur Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Apple and Disposable Technology http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/11/25/apple-and-disposable-technology/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/11/25/apple-and-disposable-technology/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:24 +0000 aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=5474
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    • ]]>     This blog post, about Apple and Disposable Technology and how we buy iPods every 2 years now, has been written thousands of times, but I enjoyed Brendan Kelly's artful take on it and have been meaning to post this for 4 months.

    Think about it. Apple really nailed this one. There’s an apple store here in Chicago, and I remember going in there only 2 years after the first ipods came out and there was a bin for ‘recycling your ipod’ right there in the store. There was a sign above it that said something like “it’s been good to you, now recycle it”. Dude? Are you fucking kidding me? Those things cost like 300 bucks! I hate to sound like a fucking grandpa, but back in my day shit that cost three hundred bucks wasn’t supposed to fucking die EVER. I mean, what kind of brass iBalls does this company have that they can sell this shit for so much money and then when you bring it in because it’s broken, they can smile smugly and say “hey, it’s not supposed to last much more than 2 years. It’s been good to you, right? Now recycle it and get another one.” Fuck. You. (and yeah, I’ll take another one…snivel)


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