{"id":722499,"date":"2010-04-23T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=44272"},"modified":"2010-04-23T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:08:19","slug":"apple-hardware-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/722499","title":{"rendered":"Apple Hardware Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today, my daughter put my old iPod Mini into the iHome clock radio<\/a> in her room and was surprised to see it spring to life. \u00a0Surprised, but not nearly as surprised as I was. Astonished is probably a more accurate word for my reaction. Not only had that iPod\u00a0lasted me for years in my car, at the gym, at work, and at home, I had used it until the battery no longer held a charge. \u00a0\u00a0The Mini came with me on trips around the country, driving and flying, my constant companion. At one point I loaded Linux<\/a> on it, just because I could, became tired of it and set it back to factory defaults.<\/p>\n

After the battery gave up the ghost, the Mini continued to work great, as long as it was plugged in, for a couple more years. After the Mini refused to power on when plugged in, (or so I thought) I put it up, and generally forgot about it until my two year old son somehow found it and decided that he needed<\/em> it. \u00a0Since it was busted anyway, I let him have it, and that’s when the real abuse began.<\/p>\n

My son dropped it on the concrete, used it as a hammer, and may have even taken a dive in the tub with it once or twice. \u00a0I don’t think I’ve ever had a device as throughly beaten as this old Mini. For months, what was my companion became my son’s, inside and out. So, imagine my surprise when, after months of neglect and mistreatment, the Mini powered on and filled my daughter’s room with music once more. My old iPod is not without its scars, the click wheel doesn’t work, and the black and white display is a little patchy, but it still accepts the buttons on the iHome.<\/p>\n

Have you had a similar, jaw dropping, “it still works” moment with your Apple gear? \u00a0I’d love to hear about it, sound off in the comments<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Image\u00a0courtesy<\/a> of\u00a0Flickr user mfajardo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Today, my daughter put my old iPod Mini into the iHome clock radio in her room and was surprised to see it spring to life. \u00a0Surprised, but not nearly as surprised as I was. Astonished is probably a more accurate word for my reaction. Not only had that iPod\u00a0lasted me for years in my car, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31Xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}