I Can Kill You With My Brain

I finally picked up an iPhone back in January.  It didn’t take me long to completely fall in love with it.  2 months later and I’m still in awe when I use it.  Just last week I remarked to my mom that it is by far my favorite piece of tech that I have purchased in the last several years.

And then Thursday night I dropped it.  I’ve dropped it before and it’s been fine, but this time it landed almost flat on the glass screen and not on it’s side.  There was a clear impact point and a spidering effect across the glass.  I took a picture but I don’t even want to look at it myself right now.  I was heartbroken.

I took it into the Apple Store and asked if they could do anything about it.  They said they could replace it, but it wouldn’t be covered under the warranty.  Due to the clear impact point, the damage was not due to any faulty iPhone components.  Even though I had paid for the extended AppleCare warranty, it still wasn’t covered because it was clear that the damage didn’t occur through normal wear and tear.  I couldn’t argue with the guy.  He was right.

My only option was to pay $200 and they’d swap out my iPhone with a new one right there.  Well, the other option was to pay $200 and wait a week for them to fix my personal iPhone, but then I’d be out an iPhone.  Now that I think about it, a third option presented to me was to continue using my screen-shattered iPhone, as all of the core functionality still worked, it just looked terrible.  It took me about half of a second to make the decision to have my iPhone fixed.  This will go down as My $200 Lesson ™.

But I’m a little paranoid I’m going to drop it again, so I now pull my iPhone behind me in a rickshaw that has soft, velvet covered pillows and a shock system for the tires that would make the space shuttle jealous.