I was
rocking some Keith and the Girl this morning, one of my favorite comedy
podcasts…a couple in NYC doing a show from their home. Great, great stuff...my daily delight. 15 minutes into Episode 896 and I hear a weird noise…then
I hear nothing. Nothing at all. I glance at my iTouch screen and it’s
black. I try the center button,
nothing. I try the top reset button….nothing. I try plugging it into my charger even though
I know it’s got a full charge….nothing.
I quickly
went through my mental checkbook, realized it would be 4 pay periods before I
could part with $220 (recent Wii purchases have killed me financially), and nearly splattered my drawers. 2 months without an iTouch? No way, can’t do it. I’m too hooked. My Podcasts, my Pandora, my AOL Radio, my other apps. Just 13 months into owning my first piece of
Apple equipment, the iTouch purchased in January 2008, I realize how much I
need the iTouch. After just a seconds
worth of thinking about it, I need my October purchased MacBook.
Apple HAS me. I have become so dependent on my daily routines, which center around having the iTouch in my ear nearly all day and the MacBook connected to my fingers all night, that I can't fathom what it would be like not to have my iTouch...not to have my Macbook. If it came right down to it, if my iTouch crapped out on me this morning, I'd be going to the Apple Store over lunch, buying the newest 8GB iTouch, and then spending the next 3 weeks eBaying things from around the house that "I don't really need" in order to finance the "emergency" iTouch purchase. Am I disgusting? Am I sick in the head?
Yea, I have a few other MP3 players laying around that would do the job (sort of) to get my daily podcasts pushed into my brain that I could use while I save up $50 at a time in order to pay cash for a new iTouch...but they're nowhere near as epic as the iTouch. I realy feel that going from an iTouch to anything else would be such a downgrade, such a step backwards, the perfect example of devolution that I just couldn't handle it.
Luckily after holding the button on front and the button on top for about 10 seconds, the lovely, glorious shiny, silver Apple logo appeared on the dark screen and moments later I was back into the Keith and the Girl episode. Now, though, I am worried that the year old iTouch is on the brink of death. I better start saving up for the inevitable now...
Apple flat out has me.