Brick
– verb
To strip a smartphone of all its useful features. To make it as useful as –
I performed my first open case surgery on the iPhone to replace its failing battery last weekend.
Pop quiz:
Do you spend $15 to do it yourself or give $80+ to Apple, plus suffer through a week without your phone while it ships back and forth to God knows where?
What do you do?
WHAT DO YOU DO?!?
I’m not…
I didn’t even know it had a name. I’d never seen it before my Beth’s PowerBook started having problems last month.
Apparently there is a screen of death on a Mac, the dread blue-screen equivalent: the GSOD, or grayed-out screen of death. I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of it. It’s rarely seen in the wild, confined mostly to secret labs, under highly controlled circumstances…
Why do I even need to blog from my phone? Isn’t it bad enough I spend a chunk of my PC time writting? Now I’ve got to encourage a repetitive motion injury in my thumbs typing on my phone?
You should know that I don’t like to use the “PC” acronym here, which implies Windows, and all the evil associated with that label.
Yes, I do. I did some blogging lite before, when I was wandering…