Logic bomb placed by Apple so that I'd have to buy an iPhone? Hardly seems fair since I was going to get one anyway. It's been behaving strangely ever since I flung it off the elliptical at the gym...I guess that's hardly a logic bomb. :-)
I guess for $249 I can get it "serviced" which actually just consists of replacing it...or get a $149.95 used replacement drive with a whopping 6 month warranty.
Neither seem worth it. Guess I'll just put the money into the iPhone savings account.
Update: Wow, I'm like the fonz or something. After reading this ArsTechnica post on dead iPod drives I followed the advice and dropped it flat on my desk from a height of about 8 inches.
Now it boots, syncs, and the click/whirr/grind is gone.
Talk about counter-intuitive. That's downright freaky. Certainly I imagine I'll still have trouble with it, but it was kind of fun. Apparently it's commonplace even. Maybe the cable was actually the problem. Probably shouldn't have dropped it in that case. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
Don't worry Apple, I'm still buying an iPhone.
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