September 30th, 2008 06:09 pm
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September 30th, 2008 01:09 pm
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September 29th, 2008 08:09 pm
I’ve been an PC user for around 15 years now, half of my life. Scary, I know. Last month I made my first Apple purchase ever. I needed a new phone so I picked an iPhone 3G 8GB at AT&T.
After two weeks of being an iPhone owner I think I have deduced how Apple manages to maintain an air of snobby superiority in the consumer technology marketplace. When Apple software crashes it does so silently, leaving no trace, offering to details as to what happened or why. When PC software crashes it make lots of noise on the screen, often leaves a mess in your filesystem and inundates the user with lots of technical detail about what happened, why it happened, who caused it and what the state of the system was when it happened.
The Apple approach seems to appeal to the luxury oriented crowd that aren’t interested in fixing things when they break, they can afford to pay a specialist or the manufacturer do that for them. As long as the thing looks nice and fails quietly it’s fine by them. The PC approach attracts the do-it-yourself (a.k.a. cheap) crowd that likes to know how things work and how to fix them when they break. Calling outside help or the manufacturer is usually the last resort.
Something on my iPhone seems to crash at least once or twice daily, wether it’s something in the OS, an application or the most basic function of making a phone call. Depending on the applications I use, something on my Vista latop crashes at most once every couple of weeks.
I should start making notes when things crash so I could see how my hypothesis holds up to some empirical data.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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September 27th, 2008 02:09 pm
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September 26th, 2008 06:09 pm
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September 19th, 2008 06:09 pm
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September 18th, 2008 10:09 pm
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September 18th, 2008 03:09 pm
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September 16th, 2008 05:09 pm
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