Our site seams pretty much dead, no one has posted in quite I while, and I think I am the only one who has posted in an even longer time. I am going to make better efforts to write some posts, at least until our site is totally dead and no longer has a server to keep it alive. Everyone I am sure is very busy with life, school, and work, in fact the three of us have not been together since the last podcast, (episode 11) I moved to downtown SLC in Utah, so we are all even farther away from each other. For any who worry we have not been together in a while we still keep in regular contact, God bless e-mail, and SMS, also we have been beta, or maybe more appropriately alpha testing google wave with each other, so we still share stories and talk.
Tech news in my life as of late, I obtained a PS3 about a month ago, and have been loving it! I will put some posts about that and put some tutorials, and how too’s for it. I am not an Xbox hater, but I have owned a PS1, PS2, and now this so I am very partial to the PS, and the PS3 is by my opinion the best on the market right now, so I’ll put some thoughts, and my experience with it another day. My main thought I wanted to put out is how great Apple is. I know, I know, I am considered a fan boy or an Apple cultist so who gives that I say Apple is great? I thought about the last few months with my Apple experience and realized how well they take care of me; remember that shiny new iPod nano i review a few months back? Well, in October it had an unfortunate boating accident and got a little wet. I got it working but the screen would not light up, and the battery did not charge well. I told the folks over at Apple what happened and to my surprise they replaced it, they usually don’t replace for water damage but they did since the product was so new, my second was I felt my macbook pro was running a little slow and froze up ever once and a while, so I took it in and they decided to put a new hard drive in it, free of charge. I was a little disapointed because I was going to be without the computer and not have it for school, I reluctantly let them take it in thinking it would be gone for a few days, but a few hours later they called me to tell me it was done, and everything was free of charge. My last one was last Saturday, I noticed a crack in my phones SIM slot, so I took it in to show them, and they gave me a brand new phone, now I have a shiny new iPhone. Why am I telling you all of this? You must be thinking “all these problems, Apple must make some pretty crappy stuff?” I beg to differ, I am pretty hard on my equipment, I have dropped my phone so many times and I never have a case on it, how many companies will replace a phone for free after you have had it for a year, and you were the one who broke it? The nano also my fault, and my hard drive issue, well that happens some times, no computer on earth is immune to failure.
In closing my whole point is kudos to Apple, you continue to have the best customer service, not only over every other computer company on the planet, but even better than a lot of other companies, I think other businesses could take some pointers on how Apple treats their customers. I know this whole article sounds like a typical Apple fanboy rant, but I felt I had to give them some shout outs, even though they are not paying for this. Many people complain that Apple products are too expensive, but in hind sight, I think I have saved myself money by not having to shell out when I have a problem with equipment, they have saved me many a time from buying new things. My first computer I ever had when I was a kid was an Apple II, and I have had a host of them through the years and my last computer you can bet will be an Apple (hope that was cheesy enough for you!) keep up the good work, and too any of you Apple naysayers all I can say is; I love not having to worry about my computer breaking down and the company not fixing it, how many PC users can say that?