Comments on: Catastrophic Technology #FAIL

By: Fendergurl

Fendergurl — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:29:50 +0000

Poor you (and poor iphone) but really, mostly it's poor contact with your regular peeps.

Of course, there is something upsetting about changing the routine and a form of contact you have relied upon each day. I have heard that the iphone 4 is “not perfect” to quote Steve Jobs – and 3 milion “band-aid” rubber covers are being handed out customers to ensure “antennagate” doesn't affect the company's stocks.

I guess that “band-aid” would fall off if it were dropped into some “clean” water too…
Hang-in there, I too have heard from a recent and reliable source that the rice-bath works!
fg

By: Scott Oakley

Scott Oakley — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:39:22 +0000

RIP old tech. Go get yourself the shiny new iPhone 4! ;)

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:30:42 +0000

You know, I used to wonder why folks were so attached to their iPhone, or BlackBerry, or similar. Now, having used one for almost a year now, I couldn't see myself ever being without it. I feel your pain, miss.

But old phones rock the casbah, too! ;-)

By: Mare

Mare — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:14:12 +0000

Unplugging (even reluctantly and without planning to) is a good thing, and I wish more people would do it.

That said, my PC died when I arrived at my hotel last week. I went nuts. I wasn't able to make airline reservations for an important, last-minute trip…but then I was — I had to (gasp) call the airline, and talk to a person and go through all my options and explain how the customer service agent was supposed to apply my points…

I'm not being sarcastic — I seriously was losing my mind without my pc and internet. And the airline reservations took about 5x as long.

I was able to recover everything in 2 days. So, yes, disconnecting is good, except when one needs something.

By: Kneale Mann

Kneale Mann — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:00:28 +0000

As someone who has lost three BB's in my career – coffee, wine, water – I can feel your pain. They have engineered the smart phones with harder cases for the hand slip meets pavement incident, they now need to work on the waterproof technology to protect us from the various liquids in our lives. I hope your iPhone makes a speedy recovery!