Devir Kahan

What’s With Apple And Wiping People’s Hard Drives?

// November 10th, 2009 // Apple, Blog, Gadgets, Life, Reviews, Tech

I opened up the Music app on my iPod Touch the other day after downloading a bunch of podcasts from iTunes. It seemed to be working very slowly, so I hit the home button and opened up the app again. This time, instead of seeing all my music, it said something about updating my music library and it wanted me to wait for “a few minutes”. Well, I waited the few minutes and nothing happened. So, I quit out of the app once more and opened it up again. You know what I found? This:

My iPod Touch just deleted all my music! Just like that! Strangely enough all the podcasts that I just downloaded were there, so it wasn’t too bad, but now I still needed to re-sync all my songs. I still have no clue why this happened, but I did realize something else.

Apple seems to be doing a darned good job at erasing people’s content. After Snow Leopard came out, a few people reported that there was a major issue in the OS that would peoples entire hard drive. These few people would make a guest account, log into it, and then log back into their regular account, and find that everything was gone. Snow Leopard just erased everything.

Of course Apple didn’t stop there. Just a day or two ago Apple released the new Apple TV update (yes, they make product called an Apple TV:)) and then quickly released another update to that one urging people to update. They said that if they didn’t there was a good chance that the Apple TV would erase all their content form the device.

I don’t know how many people out there remember, but when Apple released their first version of iTunes they quickly updated that as well. Why? Oh, there was just a “small glitch” that would erase people’s entire hard drive upon opening the application. Granted, that happened a long time ago, but it still erased people’s hard drive and is completely relevant.

It feels really weird to write all this being a huge Apple fanboy. So why am I writing it? Well, because I know that Apple is otherwise a 100 percent perfect company and will never do anything else wrong ever again.

Ok, maybe not, but I still get this strange feeling that someone over at Apple is laughing their head off as he sticks small strings of code into big Apple programs that just have the slight tendency to wipe people’s hard drives.