“So it’s come to this” I thought as I held down the white iPhone’s power button. A frustrating task because it took time, and any time not spent doing what I wanted was time wasted. I only had the bastard for a few days when all of a sudden its data feed died, going out while I I clamored to log in to Evernote before the moment to grab a picture passed before the moment to grab a picture passed. The 3G indicator was still on, but the cursed phone just sat there, miniature hamsters spinning away to no avail.
“Fuck you” I silently cursed, waiting a moment before I pressed the power button again to complete the reboot cycle. But it didn’t work as its wont to fail. A third press, this time longer, and the phone woke from its slumber. A full thirty seconds before it sprang back to life, but spring back it did with its data stream intact. I shrugged. “What causes such a strange 3G outage?” I wondered, as if my phone were a patient and I were its confused doctor.
I thought about how every phone I’ve owned has required reboots and shut-downs and airplane-mode cycles to fix various issues and stability problems. They’re like Windows PCs in the 90s, requiring a dozen reboots a week to keep the wheels greased and moving smoothly. As phones became more complicated and smart, so did the need to reboot them rise accordingly. That is, until the iPhone, when there was a noticeable drop in the frequency of such reboots. And now, my iPhone runs days, if not weeks, without needing to sleep, clamoring on with only the occasional hiccup.
“The value of a mobile device is inversely proportional to the frequency of its required reboots”, I concluded. One may wonder why such reboots are necessary at all, and why radio issues and platform stability can’t be addressed in a way that doesn’t force the user to lose a minute of their time on a boot sequence. And I wonder this too, but right now I’m busy capturing a scene into Evernote.
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