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Irony: iPhone 5S Users Reporting Blue Screen of Death
MojoKid writes "It's been a long time since many have seen a dreaded 'blue screen of death' (BSoD), but it's back and in the most unlikeliest of places. Oddly enough, some Apple iPhone 5S owners are reporting BSoD errors, though they're a little different from the ones you may remember seeing on Windows desktops. Rather than spit out an obscure error code with a generic description, some iPhone 5S devices are suddenly turning blue before automatically restarting. The Numbers app in Apple's iWork suite, a free program with new iPhones, seems to be the primary cause, though BSoD behavior has also been observed in other applications, according to complaints in Apple's support forum."
Guru Meditation: BSoD.
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Sounds like somebody's grammar checker had a blue screen...
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... They're just looking at it wrong.
They didn't make a shiny golden backplate for you to waste your time looking at the screen, people!
There are plenty of bugs in iOS, even for low-permission apps. I've been messing around with the mach parser, and I've found several ways to crash the device (other people have reported similar things). The interface between userland and kernel is just complicated, and sandboxing has never been and never will be a magic bullet.
That said, your second point is a good one, why would it suddenly turn blue when ever other crash just causes it to turn black with a rotating circle? Doesn't really make sense.......
Because iPhone fanboys are also hipsters, and the blue screen is old enough to now qualify as "Retro". You're just not cool unless your device dies with a warm, blue glow!
. . .these turn out to be forced/silent restarts by Apple on the backend, due to a laundry list of reasons best left to others - don't ask how I know.
Uh oh, looks likes Job's Reality Distortion Field is collapsing. :p
If this keeps up, Macs may start turning into fruit or something.
Dude, what are you talking about.
This is not a bug! If you see this happening, it's an indication you're among the chosen ones!
All glory to the hypno-Jobs
Pffft. Everyone with an iPhone gets a blue screen. My phone is built with a CRT - they only make those at this one old Soviet factory that they recently found.
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My home phone has a _string_.
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My home phone is a large fire and a blanket.
My home phone is a piece of dried mammoth hide stretched across some sticks that I beat with a rock.
I love my sig.
You win.
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