Yesterday, I was the unfortunate recipient of a massive spiderweb crack in the screen of my iPhone 3Gs. After brushing off my gut reaction – which was to use this an opportunity to rationalize buying a Google Nexus One phone – I did a quick Google search online for “fixing cracked iPhone screens”, thus learning that I had a few options:
- Apple Store Genius Bar
- DIY kit
- Shady send-it-in-and-we’ll-fix-it online offerings
- Shady fix-it-in-a-parking-lot guy
I laid out my options.
OPTION #1: Apple Store Genius Bar
Cost: $199
Upsides: A near-immediate fix without precious time away from my primary post-pc device.
Downsides: Price.
Decision: Let’s be serious, there’s not a chance in the world that I’m dropping $199 at an Apple store to repair a phone that is halfway through its product life-cycle. FAIL.
