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How silly
It turns out my iPod wasn't defunct after all. It just needed turning back on!
Apparently, for the last three and a half years, every single time I thought I was turning it off or on, I was in fact putting it in and out of a state more akin to a laptop's ‘suspend’ function. On Monday it took it into its head, for reasons unexplained, to power itself off properly, which meant that pressing what I thought was the On button but was actually the Unsuspend button did nothing. To actually turn it on, one has to apply a Vulcan nerve pinch to two particular buttons and hold it for eight seconds, whereupon it spends a minute or so booting up before being willing to do anything.
I thought Apple were supposed to be masters of creating computing devices that a non-
(Unless, I suppose, any non-
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- Power consumption drops to almost nil.
- Device shows few or no signs of life, even when stimulated through the control surface.
- Upon coming out of standby, the device exhibits some kind of "reboot" characteristic, with non-persistent state reset to defaults.
- The reboot will recover if the system has crashed.
Of these, it's only the last that the iPod lacks — presumably because Apple's hubris leads them to expect that iPods crashing will be such a rare event that the user doesn't need an obvious way to recover. The reason it lacks it is presumably that standby is governed by the normal software running in some ultra-low-power-consumption mode rather than a separate microcontroller akin to those on PC mainboards.To be marginally fair to Apple, if you'd phoned them up and asked for a warranty replacement they'd probably have told you about the nerve-pinch. (-8
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I'm also irrisistably reminded of Jurassic Park (I may have made this joke before):
- OK, where's the off switch?
- Right here, next to the computer
- CLICK
- OK, where's the reset switch?
- Um. Under the raptor pen.
- *rolleyes* Crap.
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While the "hibernate" mode has a battery life of hundreds of hours, I'm happy with current behaviour.
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I should specify that, contrary to how it sounded, the way most people think is not necessarily inferior to the way I think. By default, I instinctively assume it is, but there's no actual evidence that eletronics that works the way it did 15 years ago is superior to electronics which is reliable and userfriendly, and a reasonable interpretation would be that it isn't :)
(That is, what you said. But it always _happens_ to bug me, for no objective reason except a nagging feeling that it's not really under control and it'll end up biting me in some way later, even if in almost all ways its lots better. However, I suspect Simon will feel the same way.)
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-Insufficient storage space
-Nonexistent random play mode; takes 20 songs from entire collection in a random order and loops them over and over in that order
-First thing you hear about near-dead battery is when it goes "boooop" in your ear and dies mid-journey
-What is this thing ogg?
-Requires secret mystic sequence of keypresses to acknowledge newly loaded songs; does not recognise tag information from Linux about 80% of the time, so you have to look in the "Unknown Artist" folder. This would be less the case if I used the automatic uploader, but then none of my music would work, since I ripped it all off CDs and it would go "umm I'm telling of you".
-If you put your hand in your pocket, you press a button and it skips the song
-When the temperature is below freezing and the humidity is non-zero, it fails to respond to any command unless you put it in your mouth and warm it up.
However: I can turn it off.
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Heading south tomorrow evening, whatever the weather :)
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*sets reminder on phone*