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Heard my neighbor's kid say their old iPod was 'just garbage'
I was outside working and overheard him talking to a friend... they were about to toss a perfectly good 4th gen iPod Nano because the battery was dead. I asked if I could have it, and after a $12 battery kit and about 20 minutes, it was playing music again. It made me realize how many things get thrown out over one simple, cheap part. Has anyone else brought an old music player back from the brink recently?
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skylerg1722d ago
Is it really that big of a deal though? Most people just want their music on their phone now, not a separate gadget. It's cool you fixed it, but calling it garbage isn't totally wrong for how they use stuff.
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the_hugo22d agoMost Upvoted
Honestly, it's just a plastic box with a screen. People get so mad when a company stops fixing old stuff, but how long are they supposed to keep making parts for it? My old laptop from 2012 is basically a brick now too. It's not like Apple is the only one who does this.
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Totally get what you're saying. I found my old 160GB iPod Classic in a drawer last month, completely dead. Ordered a new hard drive cable online for like eight bucks, followed a video, and now it's full of my whole music library again. The sound is way better than streaming from my phone, in my opinion. It feels good to not just add another piece of e-waste to the pile over a tiny, cheap fix.
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