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Crashed iPhone On Display At Apple Store

poopforbrains.com — Photo of an crashed iPhone (terminal showing errors) on display next to an iMac at the Apple Store. Photo taken, of course, with iPhone.

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  • hANDoFdEVIL, on 10/10/2007, -96/+371Reality check fanboys. Apple products do crash.
    • KenMo, on 10/10/2007, -24/+60Durrrrr... Really? Durrrr...
      • GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Macro photography with the iPhone...priceless.
        • etruscan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7There's nothing macro about that photography.
    • rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -18/+44Its called single user mode.
      • Wormfather, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4Call it what you will, but apple products are "Supposed to just work"...that doesnt look like it's working very well.

        Newton Reborn!!! (too far, I know.)
      • seraph82, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6yeah, okay, start typing from that. Oh wait, no ***** qwerty. PWNT.
      • EbilPhish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Would never have guessed it, maybe the words "Singleuser boot" might have been a clue.
      • rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Morons, the point is iphone doesnt have single user start up scripts ergo the picture is a fake.
    • SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -30/+80I worked in the music industry and did graphic design... needless to say I was forced to get a mac. My fanboy friend was all happy and told me how "macs don't have a blue screen of death! they are great! never have problems!"

      I fell for it. And he was right. Macs don't have a blue screen of death. They have a grey screen of death kernel crash screen. Within the first week of having my mac, i had one and lost a ton of work on a project which i was stupid enough not to be doing saves on it like i would on a pc.
      • haydesigner, on 10/10/2007, -62/+16So *you* were stupid and *you* changed your work habits... and it somehow means Apple makes ***** products?
        • SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -10/+49Did I say they made ***** products? No, you troll douche. I simply pointed out how they are not immune to crashing and how I learned the hard way after trusting my fanboy friend. Next time try reading before you click the submit button.
        • L33tMasta, on 10/10/2007, -8/+32ITT: haydesigner gets his apple loving ass OWNED.
        • mbthompson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11@SIRBERUS

          I have no idea why, but I find the term "troll douche" hysterical.
          • heliox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Its a new product on the market. It helps keep them fresh smelling.
        • Dolomite, on 10/10/2007, -35/+2Siberus: so You ***** up and blame apple???? how is that their fault again?
          • abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Did you even read the comment?
      • UglyBunny, on 10/10/2007, -13/+32People always use the line, "I need a mac for my job; I'm in graphic design/music/video" to explain why they NEED a mac to PC fanboys. What those people haven't figured out yet is: Anything that can be done on a mac can be done on a PC. Yes, even video.
        • MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Of courser it can. Only the most feverish fanatic would say otherwise. Some of it depends on the worker's preference (if he prefers one over the other, he'll be productive on the platform he likes), some of it depends on what standardized software the company uses. If it's Adobe Premiere then he's on a PC (until recently), if it's Avid, then it could be either PC or a Mac, if it's Final Cut then it's a Mac.
          • webmasterjoe, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5It can be done on either platform, but personally, coming from an pro audio perspective, the Mac is a better platform for it. Firewire has been much more reliable in my experience, the system handles dual monitors much better (in fact, the display in general is a lot smoother, having run Windows on my iMac for comparison), and the design of the whole system just feels like it caters more to creative work - Windows has always felt like it was designed with the programmers and office apps in mind, which means less priority goes to things like quick audio/video response and accurate color.

            If you don't do creative work professionally, then you probably won't notice the difference or care. But those who do will almost always prefer the Mac environment. It isn't perfect; if someone thinks that a story like this will shatter the foundation of mac zealotry, then that person should read through some mac-centric forums.
          • aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Many PCs come with Firewire, and if they don't come with it, it's a $15 card to add it.
            Also, you may see something most other people don't, but the OS doesn't have much to do with how "smooth" the display is, or how well dual monitors work, the video card handles most of that. I have used two displays on my PC for years, and have never had any trouble with it.
            And I have heard Macs and PCs display colors differently, though the article seemed to think Macs colors were more inaccurate.
            http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/02/14/this-is-your-mac-on-drugs/
            The difference beteween Mac and PC capability wise is pretty negligible now, it's more about which OS you're most used to, and which programs you prefer.
          • codmate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why does AutoDesk Flame get shipped with Red Hat Linux then?

            Could it be that you can make software work on pretty much any platform, and if you're a big company you chose one you like for your own various reasons?
        • BackEnThaWomb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2my mom works in the merchandise department for Playboy in Chicago. I went to work with her one day, and all the Photoshoppers working on the model's pics that go in the magazine had two computers, one PC and one Mac. Most, I saw, were using the Mac...
          • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11I have a much more fascinating post: Your mom's a slut.
        • cklein121, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Well yea, you can eat soup with a spoon but that wouldn't work so well either. Final Cut Studio is unriveled in the video industry. Along with Shake, their special effects software used in countless big budget movies including King Kong and Lord of the Rings. And, oh, the effects artists even won Oscars. As for pictures, both have Photoshop with idetical features but Macs' workflows are far more streamlined with other apps like Aperture and iPhoto for casual editors and simple plug and play abilities with hundreds of cameras.
          • aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2...how the hell do you eat your soup if it's not with a spoon?
          • magus_melchior, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2@aaronm67: You could do what the Japanese do, and oh, I don't know, sip directly from the bowl?
            In the US and elsewhere, people *do* serve soup in mugs for that purpose, for that matter.
        • dclowd9901, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have trouble using PCs for design work, because the large part of the industry uses Macs, and you can preach all day about cross-platform compatibility, but I never have more problems using files between computers than I do between a mac and a PC. It's an interoperability thing, more than anything else.
        • SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The music industry is run by:
          -Mac computers
          -computer illiterate people
          -penny pinchers

          The fact is that they don't want to learn anything new or do anything that wastes time/money. So when my computer needs to be used, or hooked up to their system, etc. etc. they need it to be a mac. So yes, I was forced.
      • flashback99, on 10/10/2007, -14/+13Just try using a PC to compose music and you'll realise why you need a mac.

        I have a brand new Core 2 Duo PC that runs XP and Cakewalk Sonar for making music - the damn thing can't handle more than 5 software instruments without lagging or windows coming up with graphical errors or hangs.

        So I installed OSX86 to see what the fuss was all about. I bought Logic Express and the same computer runs 40+ software instruments and real time plugins without even one hiccup - I actually finished a couple of tracks without them being deleted mid-work. Oh, and this is with FCP running in the background.

        There's a reason people use macs for media.
        • GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Wait, so you used two different computers of different prices ranges, and made your decision after using two different programs?

          I built myself a $800 PC [without monitor]. It runs Photoshop CS3 flawlessly. I didn't have to wait around for changes to be made, even when editing a 25600 x 8570 panorama I stiched together from ~20 RAW photos. You pay lots of money to get a Mac, so you get better parts than a cheap PC. Pay a friend to build you a computer, you'll get much better results.
          • webmasterjoe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5From my understanding, he put OSX86 on the SAME MACHINE.

            Those of us who used to build our own computers know that the "I built a PC for $X" argument is tired. There's something to be said for a system designed by a company with more resources than yourself, and as capable as I am of building a PC with equal specs to my Mac, it would cost more and I wouldn't enjoy the process or the end result as much as I enjoy my Mac. If you really think you can do better, go price out all the components and let us know.
          • Slovenian6474, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've priced out the components. It was cheaper. So I bought it. Personally, I'm sick of seeing component price listings compared to Mac prices.
        • chedabob, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4Digg needs a comment delete. Bury this.
        • chedabob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Ever thought that maybe, just maybe, that it was Cakewalk Sonar having an issue?
        • DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5thats rubbish i have been doiung music on PC since fastracker 3 on DOS. if you optimize your computer properly, it will run lots of VSTis, dont expect to run 10 Minimonstas or huge sample based plugs though. some VSTis are just pigs.
        • cklein121, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well 40 instruments sounds a lot better than being able to expect huge samples...
      • prinse84, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2"Within the first week of having my mac, i had one and lost a ton of work on a project which i was stupid enough not to be doing saves on it like i would on a pc."
        So because you were stupid enough not to save your project its apples fault?
    • themouth, on 10/10/2007, -25/+59Reality check.... someone created an image of a single user mode boot, put it on an iphone and displayed it full screen, then took a picture and has all of digg foaming at the mouth
      • Birty, on 10/10/2007, -14/+3Great comment
      • rebrad, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12I certainly wouldn't advertise that the picture was taken with an iPhone. I have a digital camera that I picked up at the dollar store for my kid that takes better pictures. Who could tell what was on the screen. The picture sucked big time.
      • seraph82, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4actually, no, the quality of the pictures taken from the iPhone is prohibitive of such endeavors. The iPhone camera sucks fat d*ck.
    • koko775, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Reality check, hANDoFdEVIL: we *know*.
    • donwilson2, on 10/10/2007, -11/+21Who said it doesn't crash?
      • inkswamp, on 10/10/2007, -14/+19Apple haters putting words in the mouths of Mac users to set up strawman arguments, that's who.
        • airquotes, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2and, THIS ISN"T A CRASH, this is on par with someone taking a screenshot of XP booted to safemode, or recovery console and saying it crashed, the two arent mutually exclusive.
          • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and btw the SAME THING FOR ALL WINDOWS CRASH SCREENSHOTS. It's JUST NOT POSSIBLE!!!

            and I'm a pink monkey.
    • PAJK, on 10/10/2007, -11/+5None of mine have. :D
      • davepascoe, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3my iBook crashed 3 times last year due to a bug when going to sleep with one internet connection and waking up with a different one. fortunately, crashing when waking didn't lose me any data, unlike when I used windows and would crash a few times a week in the middle of important tasks.
    • KennMac, on 10/10/2007, -11/+36The iPhone's OS does not come with /bin/sh OR fsck or any references to them. This is an image on the screen or someone did this intentionally. It's certainly not a crash.
      • donwilson2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Logic does not need to come into play in this article.
    • inkswamp, on 10/10/2007, -12/+16Can't recall OS X ever crashing into single-user mode. This seems very fishy to me.
      • MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I've has OS X crash on me in single-user mode on occasion getting either a weird window with strings of text (rarely), but most often just getting a GSOD. Happened most often with 10.2, occasionally with 10.3, and so far not a single one in 10.4.
        • DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1He said into single-user mode, not in single-user mode.
        • lee4hmz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That sounds more like a kernel panic than it does dropping to single-user. You usually have to hold down Command-S on boot to get to single user. (Also, the Mach console assumes an 8-bit screen for historical reasons, so if it panics and you have the GSOD turned off, the message will be illegible unless you turn your color depth down *before* you crash...I found this out the hard way on my Lombard with XPostFacto.)
    • Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -15/+8Safari crashes the whole time on the iPhone, but unlike a MS product you aren't left helpless for a few minutes trying to restart the phone every time, no, for some reason you tap the app icon and you are back up and running again. By the way, Mac's are impervious to all that *****, but that is not a crash screen - it's either a hacked iPhone, or an image in the photo app.
    • hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -16/+9I don't remember ANYONE saying Macs don't crash. They do crash occasionally. Everything does. If you think otherwise, you are brainwashed. The difference is an unelegant crash vs an elegant one. MOST of the time when you experience a crash on a mac it is elegant, only the current application you are using is effected and you get dropped back into the operating system.

      Occasionally, and this is something I have never personally seen ever since Os X came out even while maintaining many of mine, friends, a business and my families computers - you can have a kernal panic which I would guess is real ***** bad and you basically just have to send your system in for repair.

      Yet I could document many times when a friends PC has COMPLETELY crashed and they lost not just what the foremost application was doing - but everything. I don't know about you guys, but I multitask running multiple office applications such as Word and Excel as well as a media player (VLC or iTunes) and sometimes a graphic editing program. Losing everything at once is pretty devastating. Sure, sometimes you can get lucky and control+alt+delete your way to salvation but I have seen a far higher frequency of complete OS crashes on the PC perhaps due to the lack of experience of most PC computer users I have come across. You'd think they could find someone more up to the task! (asking the Mac dude to fix their computer...)

      I must say though, i'm quite dissapointed with the bad business practices of releasing projects too early - then reselling the bug-free versions a year later after all the bugs have been worked out. I also dislike the atrocious picture quality of the iPhone and it's lack of features. I know - it's amazing isn't it, a Mac user who isn't blown away by the iPhone and can actually admit Apples faults. I don't know where the fanbois come from, but it's a bit annoying. This phone is missing what in my mind are critical features at this stage in developement. Perhaps in the future after all the bugs have been ironed out, I will purchase one.

      Anyways, what I guess i'm getting around to is that it's just a phone and Apple is just a computer company. They want your money above all else like virtually every corperation and they know they can take advantage of early iPhone adopters to test their 'final' product. However they do release quality computers and an OS that I love and so that Is why I use them and will continue to use them until something better comes along.

      Welcome to reality, where ALL computers have the potential to crash. I do not believe anyone has claimed otherwise.
      • ninxmz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10tl;dr
      • eridius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"you can have a kernal panic which I would guess is real ***** bad and you basically just have to send your system in for repair"

        Not true. You occasionally get a kernel panic, which is the OS crashing, but you simply have to reboot your machine. While it's true that a kernel panic can be a symptom of an underlying hardware issue, it can also simply be a symptom of a bug in the kernel which simply needs a reboot to clear up.
      • techobo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I have been using OSX daily for about 5 years on three different machines. The OS has only locked up 3 times to this date. So macs DO crash, but 3 times in 5 years is nothing to get too upset about. OS9 was a different story though. haha it was almost as bad as windows for crashes.
      • jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Um, my Mac has crashed twice this year. And it is plain jane factory with all recommended updates. I had to re-install OS X. Seems to be fixed now; might have been a shaky factory install. BUT, I do love how it goes weeks and weeks and never needs rebooting.
      • nicpedersen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1@hellotyler Seriously. have you ever used a computer before? That explanation read like you skimmed through a few wikipedia articles and tried to piece together something that seems knowledgeable...kinda like i did with every paper i wrote in college...
      • hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have been using a mac since my father bought the family one in 1984. That's oh, 20+ years now. I have also used XP and linux and fixed friends computers for as long as I can remember. How does this not 'seem' knowledgable ? I don't know about kernal panic because I have never experienced one, but everything else stands true. Can you refute it ?

        Your comment is the kind of lazy writing I would have used in HIGHSCHOOL.
    • samssf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The iphone has crashed on my but this isn't a crash. Someone has tried to boot into single user mode.
    • Rukaribe, on 10/10/2007, -13/+7I ***** hate Apple.
    • STARTSOMETHING, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3Why do apple users run windows xp in bootcamp but windows user's dont run OS X? I guess because its more stable right?
      • airquotes, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2why do windows users feel a need to come to apple posts on digg
        • runeasgar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3To defend their crappy operating system.. an operating system that is only dominant because it has been dominant.

          Throw all OS's into a pot today, with no one having used any of them.. and Windows would be left in the pot while everyone else walked away with the numerous superior operating systems that are out today.
      • monospaced, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Because they can't.
      • TheSolomon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So wait... I'm confused. Are you trying to say running XP on the Mac makes the Mac better or XP better? :P
    • runeasgar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10This is not a crashed iPhone, it's Mac OS X booted into single-user darwin. It's a normal function of the operating system, but someone forced the phone to start up this way. If I reboot my computer right now, hold down apple+S, I will get the exact same thing on my screen.

      imo.. this is just a testament to how powerful the OS on the phone really is. It really is full-blown Mac OS X.
    • MomoTheCow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well, but would something running Windows crashing make it to the front page?
      • magus_melchior, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Depends on where it is. If there was a BSOD in someplace as prominent as, say, Times Square, you'll probably see it on the front page.

        But in the context of this photo, it would be the equivalent of 9x booting into DOS mode or later Windows versions booting into Safe Mode.
    • macfanboi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Can you 'Chung' an iPhone?
  • wonderchemist, on 10/10/2007, -15/+92Notice the lines explaining how to mount your filesystem and perform a fsck. This is the generic Darwin message when you boot to (or get dumped to) single user mode. So the iPhone DOES RUN OS X :p. Of course since there is no /bin/sh, it can't load the shell so you are stuck.
    • wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -7/+25Well, a non-recoverable error is generally a "crash". Even FreeBSD can crash we know.
      • turpenine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9its not an error as much as some clever kid.
    • TeatimeGrommit, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1It looks like it crashed trying to reboot. I'm guessing damage from being dropped. Of course, as a display model it's possible that a mischievous person aimed it at one of those websites that crashes Safari but I wouldn't expect that type of screen from a Safari crash.
    • seraph82, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Also no keyboard.
  • tman105, on 10/10/2007, -9/+134Crappy picture.
    • mushroom, on 10/10/2007, -11/+84"Photo taken, of course, with iPhone"
      • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -16/+7"....by a douche that can't keep is ***** still enough for the picture to not look like pure ass"
    • craftyguy, on 10/10/2007, -15/+111He couldn't send it to any friends through MMS, so he had to post it on Digg.
      • Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -10/+9Nope, he had to send it using email for free instead. Oh noes!
    • HUKI365, on 10/10/2007, -9/+35Maybe he should've taken it with a 5MP Nokia?
      • Cwo655321, on 10/10/2007, -16/+10in an Apple store? sorry, nothing but mediocre, shiny stuff there.
        • MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Right, because no one ever has their OWN camera when they walk into an Apple store. Good thinking.
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -11/+19He was shaking his hand around too much.

      http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/423/textvt4.jpg

      I can read that fine. I bought a phone, I wasn't planning on using it to capture wildlife in Kenya.
      • Septimus, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3I bought an overrated phone, .... fixed.
      • manicleek, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3I didn't buy an iPhone, I'm not planning on capturing wildlife in Kenya, but if i wanted to I could.
    • cvrefugee, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14It's nice to see the iPhone is capable of macro shots.
      • russelbutt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1your sarcasm is not wasted on me.. digg..
    • PRlME, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2useless comment
    • MauiMac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Or... " Photo taken, of course," by an IDIOT (who cant take pictures for *****!)...
  • rnawky, on 10/10/2007, -21/+8It could just be a picture on the iPhone...
  • jklyon, on 10/10/2007, -11/+51It IS a picture on the iPhone. The crash picture for he iPhone has the little new text message bos pop up but instead it says Internal System Panic, Please Shut Down and Restore. Happened to me a while ago.
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -9/+21Hah at the people digging you down. "Noooo, must hide the truth...must. hate. apple"
  • phezz, on 10/10/2007, -25/+123Why is the picture so blurry? Photo taken, of course, with iPhone.
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -12/+7Because he was shaking his hand around with a PHONE. Not a commercial camera.
    • neuropsychguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What does taking a blurry picture have to do with it being an iPhone? Anyone can take a blurry picture with any camera. I occasionally get blurry photos with my Canon Powershot.
    • johnny5k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yeah I found out last night, as good as my iPhone is for taking portrait-type pictures (which will be 99% of the times what you're taking with a cameraphone) it does NOT work well for close-up detail shots. I tried to take a close-up pic of some RAM, and all the words were a lot blurrier than the photo above-- no matter how steady I held the camera . . 'er, iPhone. It must be because of the fixed lense-- made for a few feet away. Oh well.
    • seraph82, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No, because it's impossible to get a non-blurry closeup with the horrible iPhone camera.
    • Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I can get fairly good pictures out of my phone, but it's not made for macro shots, it's made for shooting at about 3 feet to infinity. www.tennis-schedule.com/images/iphonetext.jpg
    • Longmover, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Sigh, it's blurred because the focus is on the wall behind the phone, the wall texture is the plane in focus. Looks like a user issue to me.
  • holyskeleton, on 10/10/2007, -20/+8wow they have a black brick on display. coooool. not.
    • zybch, on 10/10/2007, -8/+8Apple - It just 'works'!
      • cfulp, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3This isn't the crash screen. Please read the rest of the posts. This was caused by some clever kid. The crash screen says "internal error - please reboot iphone". Feel free to dig me down so you can continue to talk ***** about apple.
  • toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -15/+6yawn
  • DBiz, on 10/10/2007, -39/+88OMG!! An OS crashed? Front page!!!

    Buried.
    • sanj0hn, on 10/10/2007, -8/+5My opinion exactly...
      The fact that a simple crash make it to the front page is actually an good ad for Apple : rare enough that it's some kind of special event.
      • devikwolf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Rare enough? No, more like "shut up about the damn iPhone -- look, it's not immortal, like you think."
    • felyduw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I guess the news is that the display iphone on the apple store crashed
    • robwilkens, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6It's not an OS crash, it's a non-functioning phone.. If, as the commercial says, you turn it on with a power button on the screen, and there is no power button on the screen, then how do you plan on rebooting it? I guess you just remove the batt, wait no, you can't take out the battery, I guess that just leaves unplugging it and waiting for it to discharge.
      • SgtBlue, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3No, you reboot it with the reset key combo. Why are you talking about stuff you have no business talking about; you obviously don't own one, even if you act like it.

        Not to mention that the iPhone doesn't even have a single user mode, so someone got one of the iPhones in the store to somehow reboot and try to enter single user mode. This isn't a "crash", per se. Its someone trying to access a mode of the hardware that doesn't exist. Obviously you're just here to bash Apple products and set up strawman arguments, so I doubt you even know what I'm talking about. Either that or its just a fake image someone put one the screen to trick people. Apple products crash, no one in their right mind will deny that. You're worse that the "fanboys" you attack, though, because you try to blindly assert the exact opposite of what you claim us "fanboys" say. We're not fanboys, we're realists. This article wouldn't be on the front page if it didn't have something to do with "Apple" and "crashing." Its not even a worthy article.
    • noseeme, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Hello 911? This is an emer---
      (iPhone crashes, explodes like hand grenade)
  • Kles, on 10/10/2007, -22/+11"Photo taken, of course, with iPhone."

    http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/2301/picardnu3.jpg
  • mannymix03, on 10/10/2007, -23/+20not a crash, just single user mode boot
    • rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10True. However, the fact that it somehow booted into single user mode means that either someone hacked it or it's broken.

      The title really isn't correct, but it's probably close enough.
    • Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Could be the fact that it's just a picture displayed full screen.
  • chriskeyes, on 10/10/2007, -9/+22Wow, why am I not surprised? My friends' iPhones have crashed several times. It's sad, but Apple products do crash.
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7and the reason apple products crash slightly less than windows products is EASILY definable and NOT Windows' fault. Any given Windows system has components design by MANY companies to be used in MANY configurations. Apples are built ground-up be Apple. There aren't as many variables. Its not a valid reason to say MAC OS is in any way better than windows.
    • TeatimeGrommit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Usually when Apple products crash it's bad hardware. Actually, that was my experience with Windows XP as well. Most of my XP crashes turned out to be bad hardware. I had to research brands and thus exchanged some of my time for the money that I saved by buying Wintel. With Apple, the extra money goes to Apple picking the hardware brands and Apple taking the thing back if the hardware is faulty.
  • Markers, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21I wonder what crashed first, the server or the iPhone? Hmm....
    • boredmerlin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The server, because the iphone didnt crash.
  • rushco, on 10/10/2007, -37/+37Maddox was right. This iPhone is crap.
    • rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -15/+10Please tell me you don't seriously believe the guy who made "I can draw better than your kids" is a suitable technology critic.
    • cthellis, on 10/10/2007, -10/+1...the hell people? You can't decode sarcasm THIS obvious?
      • heppareppana, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2i can't tell who is being sarcastic, rushco or rspeed? Or maybe its you cthellis who is being sarcastic? Maybe i'm being sarcastic? Could someone please kill this whole sarcasm thing, if not, we are forced to move on to irony.
        • MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If they weren't being sarcastic, wouldn't it be ironic?
      • lee4hmz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2He mentioned Maddox, so it's a lame comment in any case.
        • clackerd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0maddox is like the pokemon fad to the digg kiddies. can't wait til he is replaced by the next flavor of the month.
    • Katana314, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Say what you will; regardless of the argument he uses, usually when Maddox says something, he's about right.
      • BobMysterioso, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I so wish he wasn't. The day a giant ass shat all over me and my psp.. sad day.
  • smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -16/+10This is what happens with most apple products, they come out with it it has its errors then they come out a year later with one upgraded.
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5Or they'll just be releasing firmware upgrades soon with updates, game support, flash support, etc.
    • r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1This is probably what happens with most products, there were little errors discovered in the PS1 and PS2 when they came out, hence why they released further revisions of the console, and we won't even start on the Xbox360 (although no hardware revisions have been released yet). At least the iPhone hasn't been broken by performing its core function, unlike the 360.
  • kelly, on 10/10/2007, -13/+8Wow... the hataz out in force tonight.
  • Cockdiesel, on 10/10/2007, -7/+31actually I'm on my second IPhone. The first one lasted only 3 days before it heated up and crashed. It froze mid incoming call in my pocket. It heated up too hot to touch. Apple replaced it immediately.
    • chriskeyes, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4My friends' iPhones crashed too. Some didn't even bother getting another one.

      Apple's service also wasn't nice in this city. They had to go through lots of stuff to get another one.
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3but, to be fair, you're the jackass that bought an iphone.
    • TeatimeGrommit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Heh. iPhone flambe?
  • Hoopkidups, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22http://i18.tinypic.com/4vgurzd.jpg
    • jakk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Seeing the command line on such a small screen makes me happier than it should.
      Maybe I've spent one too many restless nights sitting in front of a SSH terminal..
      • Soulhuntre, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Get a Treo - a real keyboard and it can run SSH and even Remote Desktop if you want. Of course it would be connecting to a remote server - but thats where the fun is :)
    • SpikeX, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10Wow, that really is a crappy picture... My Q takes better photos than that... and it can even *gasp* send them places! Who would have thought...
      • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4um, you don't understand how cameras without flashes work indoors if you don't hold your hand straight. i agree that iphones are stupid, but the blame for ***** quality of this picture rests in the users hands, quite actually.
      • tdowling, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4You can send pictures from the iPhone to other places. I believe it's called "e-mail."
      • r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3You can send pictures to other places using the iPhone via e-mail, and you get a higher quality picture than MMS which has a maximum resolution of 352 x 288. I'd rather send it full quality by e-mail.
  • starfisch, on 10/10/2007, -7/+5Is the server running on the same iPhone?
  • macamatition, on 10/10/2007, -13/+4The iPhone is way better then the stupid table microsoft made...ewwww
    • chriskeyes, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8But can the iPhone work with drag-and-drop media from WiFi devices like cameras and Zunes? Or interact with non-digital objects? I don't think so. The only multi-touch comes in the forms of resizing photos, which doesn't seem much to me.
      • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Or playing with google maps. Just because there's some limited functionality at the moment doesn't mean it's a hardware weakness, just a lack of software. Give it time, it's only been out for a bit.
  • speaker219, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Mirror-
    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1310/880036034_1cac8efbfe.jpg?v=0
    • speaker219, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3That seems to be a different picture of the same exact thing.
    • jabberwolf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Who bets that the Apple legal team tried to take down that picture or anyone distributing it ASAP!!!!
      Heaven forbid people know that they can crash!!!
  • Scarfy, on 10/10/2007, -16/+40Single user mode?
    Anybody?
    Okay, we'll call it a crash and slap it on digg.
    • 1iProd, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15Yeah, what the ***** is going on with the comments. Oh wait it's a bunch of people ignorant of how other OS's work, my bad.
      • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4when we already have an OS that does EVERYTHING we want it to do perfectly fine, why the ***** would we care about your ***** OS?
        • clackerd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1oh yeah, one size fits all. *****, if microsoft were the only OS vendor around, things would be perfect.

          let me know when your flight leaves from La La Land, you dolt.
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5*foams at mouth* IPHONE BAD CAUSE.....NOT MICROSOFT....BLARGH.
    • ChewMyFootOff, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5"Single user mode?
      Anybody?
      Okay, we'll call it a crash and slap it on digg."

      Yeah, it's not a crash. I can still dial my friend, right? I can still do stuffs; only thing is I need to press reset first.
      • cfulp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What he's saying is, the iphone doesn't crash into single user mode. When the iphone crashes it reboots. Apparently the kid who caused this looked on the iphone hacker website that told him how to boot into Single User Mode.
      • boredmerlin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1god damn you really are an ignorant retard.
    • robwilkens, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Single user mode on a phone? As long as I've been running any phone I've never susage a thing.
    • Slovenian6474, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ya, that's not a crash. My iphone has crashed before and it didn't look like that at all. It was huddled in the corner as it restarted then threw me against the wall, holding me off my feet by the collar of shirt and whispered if I ever told anyone that about this, he'd kill my dog.
  • speaker219, on 10/10/2007, -16/+29bury this
  • speaker219, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44This is the text in the image (it's blurry)
    Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
    Boot device is mounted read-only

    If you want to make modifications to fil
    es:
    /sbin/fsck -fy
    /sbin/mount -?? /

    If you wish to boot the system:
    exit

    Jul 21 00:43:00 launchd(396): can't exec
    /bin/sh for single user: No such file o
    r directory
    █
  • chazuk, on 10/10/2007, -16/+5LOL @ Blurry pic.

    Get an N95 you twunt!
  • DaveClarkOne, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Really now....a domain name "poopforbrains.com" gets dugg? Exciting.

    By the way, I'm human. Must I still enter capchas that are adding squint time in my life??
  • crazzy88ss, on 10/10/2007, -10/+24I've never seen a cell phone crash before... and I sell them for ATT and Sprint...
    • idugcoal, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9...and you still haven't.
    • cthellis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6They frequently crash and freeze... They just usually don't spit out a "Black Screen of Death" or the like. ;-)
    • kday, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7*****.

      You may not see a unix termnal, but freezing = crashing.
      • r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3It hasn't frozen, it's just waiting for user input.
    • zarlwilliam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2heh.. heres a video of my two samsung m610s stuck in infinite reset loop. they can crash ;)

      http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y11rKD3Ee7A
    • TeatimeGrommit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ok, you sell them. Do you use them? Every phone I've ever owned has crashed at least once. Wait, no, my iPhone hasn't crashed on me yet, but I'm sure it will. It's just a matter of time and p0rn.
    • Slovenian6474, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It may be hard to understand, but brand new cell phones don't usually crash in the 5 minutes between when you pull them out of the box, activate them, and hand them to your customer.
    • neodorian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My crappy old phones never did but my Treo does maybe once a month or so. It just restarts though.
  • danswayuk, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Mirror if goes down:
    http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/07/24/apple-store-apparently-shows-of-crashed-iphone/
  • mynameisryan, on 10/10/2007, -19/+12"the iPhone is a piece of ***** and so is your face."
  • NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -9/+28That phone hasn't crashed, it's booted in single user mode. If it had crashed, the text would say "kernel panic". My guess is that somebody figured out how to force the phone to boot single-user, and we'll probably see lots of kids doing this wherever iPhones are on display.

    -jcr
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9there's NO good reason for it to be in that mode, being that its a phone. in this circumstance, you can call it a crash. if an electronic device enters a state whereby a NORMAL user can no longer interface with it, without them doing something abnormal to it, it is a crash. sorry dude. you are way wrong.
      • cs02rm0, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3So if your car needs to go into a garage for a service, IT'S A CRASH!
        • manicleek, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Well it's not working properly is it
        • Slovenian6474, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1YA! I've never heard of preventative maintance either!
      • cfulp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Like the 100 other people who pointed this out therightclique, when the iphone crashes it says "internal area - must reboot" and reboots. This guy probably looked at that iphone hacker website that tells you how to boot into single boot mode.
  • Pinhedd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3looks like their webserver crashed too.
  • BrandonG777, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4OMG we finally have a pic of a broke one? Is there any product made by anyone with a 0% failure rate? My windows PC looked like that about 3 times a day except I can kinda understand what's happening here.
  • aknowles5139, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Learn to focus your shot! :P
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6otherwise known as simply holding your hand still when shooting indoors without a flash.
    • VyRuZ, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6let's not forget.... he took the picture with THE iPHONE!
  • ummmmm, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2im in ur website seeing ur downz
  • pittarelli, on 10/10/2007, -13/+16You know Apple has a good product when "iPhone crashed OMGOMGMOGMGG!!!!!!!!@@#$$!" is front page
  • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I almost missed this important news because there was no BREAKING to alert me of this of so important picture.

    /sarcasm (just for those mentally challenged ones)
  • planetbeing, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7Why is this on the front page? It's not as if a crashed Windows machine was on display!
  • CCmachined, on 10/10/2007, -9/+5crashed xbox 360's are fun. this isnt crashed but uhh, reveals the MacOS as a nerdy unix clone :p
    seriously, it is. I dont know why you simpletons even deserve a unix-based OS, but it's here.
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4um. are you ***** new? EVERYONE knew that OS X was unix based. everyone. your mom knew. that was one of the selling points. that was one of the reasons for their renewed popularity. people felt security in that. there is NOTHING nerdy or geeky about MACs. sorry.
  • jamwil87, on 10/10/2007, -8/+15Buried as inaccurate.
    If it's on display, obviously someone did this intentionally.
  • vampireblood, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Finally a crash screen that isn't the Windows BSOD on Digg (Slaps face) incredible!
  • kethraal, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8So the iPhone crashed into single user mode? Really?

    That's odd... I don't remember seeing any single-user scripts on the filesystem.... I also seem to remember that OS-level crashes (which are pretty rare) don't result in the phone dropping to the command line...

    Barring more proof (or an Apple dev. doc), I'm leaning towards this being a fake.
  • windwaker, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8I'm no Apple fan by any means, but the people who know that this is inaccurate and still digg this up are ***** retarded. It wouldn't crash into single user mode.

    Buried as inaccurate.
  • ctrlaltphreak, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4dugg for funny flame war in comments of pic
  • Winston84, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6haha, the iBSOD(r)
  • Moogle, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6Blue Screen that apple-heads.
    • colincornaby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Um, it's not a blue screen. It's the equivalent of booting into DOS mode on Mac OS X. Why someone set the iPhone to do that I wouldn't know..
  • ChunkerMunker, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6So even if this is real and it did crash, even if Apple products including their Mac computers crash, they still don't crash more than Windows related crap.

    Like others have pointed out......a true testament of how solid Apple's products are, is......people seem to find a small glitch to make it front page news and shout to the world " APPLE ISN'T PERFECT!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHHA"

    Seriously

    Do you guys know how retarded you guys look?

    What if people made an article or it was news when a Microsoft product crashed?

    Oh wait.....

    That isn't news.
    • boldfire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Apple machines so tend to be stable. So do most computers. Most of the time a crash is due to a third party driver or software or even the user itself, not Microsoft, or as you nicely put it "Windows related crap" ;-) Give Apple the userbase Microsoft has earned and you'd be saying the complete opposite, millions of users = millions of potential problems, i'd like to see you fix them :)
    • Piggycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Uh people DO make an article every time a windows product crashes...where have you been?
  • ahaboy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1photo of crash iphone is great
  • cgruber, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11My wm5 and wm6 phones crash once a day.
  • smartguy4932, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13This is why I dont buy the first version of anything.....
    • noseeme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Amen to that! I even used this mentality for the Wii launch, but it looks like I would have been okay if I did buy it then after all. (Except for the revision 1 wrist strap)
    • boldfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0If nobody bought the first version of anything, there'd never be a second version of it.
    • boredmerlin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You dont buy the first version because it allows you to boot into single user mode?
  • velocitychannel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2If this picture was taken at an Apple Store, where is the security cable that locks it down to the table? It is nothing more than a picture displaying on the screen. Nice try though. The only one with "Poop for brains" is the person who believes this is real.
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