As some of you may know Apple announced a recall of it’s iPhone 3G power adapters.
Now this is no big deal, they’ve had to deal with other recalls before. This is the first one I have experienced first hand.
The process was simple I filled out an online form a couple of weeks ago. Since my wife also has an iPhone 3G I filled out the form twice since that was the instructions given by Apple.
Fast forward to today, and while at work I get an IM from my wife asking me if I was expecting a package from DHL, I said no because I forgot about the new power adapter. I told her to go ahead and open it up, and she then informed me it was the power adapter. I said cool, and asked if there was two, to which she replied no. I figured OK, no big deal maybe they are shipping them by serial number, not the most environmentally friendly way to do it, but OK. So I was shocked when two hours later it was like déjà vu when my wife informed me that FedEx had arrived with another package, and it looked exactly like the other. She proceeded to open it up and confirm that it was indeed the other power adapter.
Packages
Packages
Now let’s rewind a second. They shipped the power adapters at the same time, by two different carriers? This does not make financial, or environmental sense. Especially since Apple is trying to focus more on their environmentalism.
In my opinion Apple should have shipped the adapters together since I had to use my Apple ID to sign in and order them, and they were both going to the same address. They could have also shipped them via the same carrier as to not have to use the extra fuel.
This is just my little rant, it’s not like I’m a big environmentalist myself. I just figured that a company who is trying to be a friend to the environment could make a little bit of a more responsible decision with this large scale recall.
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I wrote two weeks ago about my troubles with Apple’s Genius. not being able to work with my vast music collection.
I am happy to now say that the problem seems to have been fixed on Apple’s end. I have submitted my Genius report on both my Media Center PC and my wife’s laptop and they were both able to go through. I am going to chalk this one up to network congestion on Apple’s servers. If anybody else is still having the problem, feel free to let me know in the comments below.
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Well today was the Let’s Rock media event from Apple, and most of the predictions by Kevin Rose were correct. Totally revamped iPod line, iTunes 8, new headphones, new features.
As soon as I heard about the new Genius feature, I figured it was right up my alley, I need something to get me to listen to more of my vast music collection.How vast you say? I have 375,590 songs which if I played straight through would play for 111 days. That’s after the great Windows Home Server data corruption bug lost a whole bunch of tune as well. How did I acquire such a collection? For 7 years I worked for the largest specialty music retailer in the United States (Trans World Entertainment). I started as a seasonal hire, and worked all the way up to being the store manager. It was during my tenure at The Wall (now f.y.e.) that I met a lot of cool people in the business both musicians, and product reps. The product reps were the people to know, not only did I get an unlimited supply of free music, but also a good supply of free DVDs. Of course being the geek that I am I digitized all this content and have had it for years. A lot of it admittedly un-listened to. So you can see why I am going to enjoy Genius.
Well here is my problem. I guess my music collection is a little too large, well too large to send to Apple at least. I keep getting a network connection timeout when trying to upload my Genius information to them, I have tried now three times and the same error happens. Now I’ve checked all my equipment and it’s not a problem on my end, it’s on Apple’s. Maybe the cloud is just over capacity. We all know Apple has had some capacity issues with iTunes before, mainly with the launch of the iPhone, and iPhone 3G.
Then we have reports of the Genius being well just that a genius, but other reports of the Genius being pretty dumb.
Maybe I will write more once I get it working, that is if I ever get my information submitted.
After getting all that written, I am now in the “Delivering your Genius results…” stage. About 33% of the way to be exact, maybe Apple sensed, well fuck as soon as I wrote sensed it time out again.
I’m not using the network for anything else, no large file transfers, just writing this blog post. Like I said, it’s not my connection it just must be Apple having a hard time delivering my Genius information. I guess my copy of iTunes 8 is just going to be a dunce for a while. I hope the issue can be resolved, so that I may get to know my music a little bit better.
I am going to attempt the same thing on my XP machine, and also my OS X machine.
UPDATE!! You can find my newest post here with the resolution.
