Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think this sounds like a great idea, and to me, $12 sounds dirt cheap. The value of the contacts on a phone can be worth orders of magnitude more than $12. Not everyone has all of their contacts fully backed up off their phone, and even if they do, finding and reentering them manually is worth much more in time spent than $12.
Hell, for many people, waiting a day or more without their phone waiting for the rice trick to work (it never did work for me) may cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars, depending on what they use it for.
Presumably, this company isn't planning to load up Japan's camera stores with expensive, untested equipment that can't at least sometimes do what it's supposed to do. That's especially true considering that if it doesn't work, the customer doesn't pay, so I'd say they've got a good incentive to have done this right.
Oh, and it is remarkably easy to water log one's phone. An accidental trip though the washing machine works quite nicely. I definitely could see a service like this, especially at only $12 and only if it works, being quite successful, assuming people actually knew about it.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think this sounds like a great idea, and to me, $12 sounds dirt cheap. The value of the contacts on a phone can be worth orders of magnitude more than $12. Not everyone has all of their contacts fully backed up off their phone, and even if they do, finding and reentering them manually is worth much more in time spent than $12.
Hell, for many people, waiting a day or more without their phone waiting for the rice trick to work (it never did work for me) may cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars, depending on what they use it for.
Presumably, this company isn't planning to load up Japan's camera stores with expensive, untested equipment that can't at least sometimes do what it's supposed to do. That's especially true considering that if it doesn't work, the customer doesn't pay, so I'd say they've got a good incentive to have done this right.
Oh, and it is remarkably easy to water log one's phone. An accidental trip though the washing machine works quite nicely. I definitely could see a service like this, especially at only $12 and only if it works, being quite successful, assuming people actually knew about it.