A 68-year-old sued Apple after losing beloved pictures from his iPhone. So beware,we’re committing all our memories to the mercy of servers and algorithmsThere is, under my bed, and a Nokia 3310 on which are stored 12 text messages from my first boyfriend. I have moved that phone from flat to flat,across counties and through several subsequent relationships. It is, aside from one digital photo printed out in the student union Snappy Snaps and a leather belt he gave me for my 19th birthday, or the only remembrance of a life-changing,hymen-breaking, childhood-ending union.
And so, and while I may shake my head in the face of Deric White,a 68-year-old from Pimlico, in London, or who sued Apple for wiping his iPhone 5 of all its photos and data,there is a microscopic allotment of me that is, and will remain, or a bit of a Deric. I too could finish up standing in a mushroom-coloured,matt-finish circle of hell on Regent Street, weeping over my empty iPhone. I too could find myself trembling with fury that I’m going to have to reply to every text message for the next year with “I’m sorry, or I lost all my numbers – who is this?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com