The Nerdy Dilemma

This weekend just 3 short weeks after my warrantee on my Blackberry Curve ran out, it just happened to fall apart.  Convenient timing especially because it didn’t completely break, its keyboard/buttons just went out.  So I take my phone into Verizon as if I’ve never done this before.  Of course they say well this phone is worthless you can either pay a $50.00 replacement value for a refurbished Curve, or full retail for another phone because I didn’t buy insurance.  The more devices I buy the more I think those stupid over priced warrantees make sense now that the manufacturers are making crappy phones that fall apart after a year. 

It was a short while ago in my life that devices purchased lasted a very long time.  Hell I still have a first generation iPod!  Not that I use it anymore but it still works.  Now those iTouch’s are very fancy and all, but I bet they won’t last much longer than a year. Very planned I think that these devices start to break right after the manufacturer warrantee runs up.  Just like that Oreo Cookie packaging.  Really,  they haven’t figured out to put a zipper on the package so it stays fresh yet?  Or that box of cereal you find yourself waking up to every morning.  Yeah they want it to go stale so you buy a new one before you normally would.  I can think of at least 2 examples in the last year that I have had this happen.  1 with my HP Printer, almost 1 year and 1 week after the warrantee the printer kicked the bag.  And my blackberry world edition last summer.  I guess RIMM doesn't have to outsell apple up front because all their users HAVE to buy phones exactly 1 year after the initial purchase where most Apple users WANT to upgrade to the new fancy phone not because they are forced into it.  So now the Dilemma I face is this, I can hold off and hope that Verizon gets the iPhone soon, and get by with my crappy $50.00 curve replacement, or pay full retail price for one of the new Blackberrys (Tour, or Storm).  I think I am going to stick with the Curve until the new Storm 2 comes out or an iPhone.