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Study Finds iPhone Twice As Reliable As BlackBerry
An anonymous reader writes "As reported at TechCrunch, 'The iPhone is twice as reliable as the BlackBerry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for the BlackBerry and 16.2 percent for the Treo.' The full report (pdf) can be found at the SquareTrade site."
Features past their prime that Apple killed? Protected memory. Hard disk capability. Cooperative multitasking. An Office suite. Upgradable RAM. Built-in screensaver. Scientific calculator with tape and RPN. Expansion slots. An efficient screen size. Block sparing. Redundant storage of critical system files. Automatic bypassing of faulty RAM. Document-centric UI. Oh yeah, Apple really showed the world that buyers want the total system freezes the Mac OS had to offer for 18 years, 18 years after it introduced a system to the market that had protected memory. Jobs is a genius! Nothing like the "revolutionary" OS X to give Mac users high-tech features like protected memory and non-hacked multitasking. Apple really took it to Microsoft by leaving Lisa Office in the dust. But, Jobs' creative genius was shown when he used bait and switch to create immense buzz for the Mac. (He used a 512k model to demo the non-upgradable 128k so it could do speech synthesis.) What does this have to do with the iPhone? Not a lot. But, since I wasted so much time of my life writing a post for an "archived" discussion I decided to post it here. Don't like it? Tough titty.