iPod, I Missed You

My first generation iPod shuffle was left tucked away in a lonely corner of my drawer in Batangas for over a year. I thought it was infected by a virus then, which is contrary to my belief that Apple products have a special shield against viruses. When it stopped playing music two years ago, I tried reformatting it, tried putting songs again, nothing happened. Then there came a time when it couldn't even be recognised as a USB drive, so I could not reset it. I tried several times, to no avail. That's when it assumed its position in that lonely corner of my drawer.

When I went back home last month, I saw my dear iPod again. I put it in my luggage, tucked it away in another lonely corner in my cabinet when I got here. Forgot about it (again) until yesterday. My colleague was complaining about his dead 2nd generation iPod shuffle and I told him mine was dead, too. I told him maybe all iPod shuffles have a kind of a self-destruction mechanism, so they would stop functioning after three years or so. But we still downloaded the Restore Utility, read some discussions online and kept our hopes high.

Yes, my iPod Shuffle has risen from the dead! It was resurrected through the intercession of Apple's Restore Utility. My colleague's shuffle, sadly, is still dead as of this writing.