tech.yahoo.com— Wondering which items made the list of 2007's worst technological breakdowns? I'll let you decide for yourself in this electronic 'hall of shame'.
Nov 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
I'm not quite sure that the iPhone should be on that list.1.) The price drop was quickly followed by the $100 gift card. Yes, it could only be used at Apple, but $100 is $100. Apple was good enough to realize what they did and put out a pretty good compromise to what ended up happening. How many other companies can say the same thing.2.) The whole bricking of the iPhone with the 1.1.1 update? If you're going to hack something, you take the risk that something might go wrong, whether it be immediately, or somewhere down the road. As far as I know, the 1.1.1 update had no ill-effects on iPhones that were not unlocked. To look at another example of this would be modding an XBOX or XBOX 360. If you mod your console in any way, you risk damaging an internal component making the console non-functional, or if you're an XBOX Live subscriber, you risk getting your 360 banned. Yes, in the end it sucks that the unlocked iPhone got bricked, but its all part of the risk you take when you hack something. Could Apple have done this better? Perhaps, but again, those who kept their iPhone the way it was intended, experienced few if any problems.
360 definitely belongs at the top of the list with so many problems MS has had with warranty returns. At least they aren't leaving the customers out to try by extending the warranty.Plus a $1 billion dollar hit to MS is like some regular Joe losing his dollar in a vending machine.
darknemesis618Nov 29, 2007
I'm not quite sure that the iPhone should be on that list.1.) The price drop was quickly followed by the $100 gift card. Yes, it could only be used at Apple, but $100 is $100. Apple was good enough to realize what they did and put out a pretty good compromise to what ended up happening. How many other companies can say the same thing.2.) The whole bricking of the iPhone with the 1.1.1 update? If you're going to hack something, you take the risk that something might go wrong, whether it be immediately, or somewhere down the road. As far as I know, the 1.1.1 update had no ill-effects on iPhones that were not unlocked. To look at another example of this would be modding an XBOX or XBOX 360. If you mod your console in any way, you risk damaging an internal component making the console non-functional, or if you're an XBOX Live subscriber, you risk getting your 360 banned. Yes, in the end it sucks that the unlocked iPhone got bricked, but its all part of the risk you take when you hack something. Could Apple have done this better? Perhaps, but again, those who kept their iPhone the way it was intended, experienced few if any problems.
chaseacejNov 29, 2007
360 definitely belongs at the top of the list with so many problems MS has had with warranty returns. At least they aren't leaving the customers out to try by extending the warranty.Plus a $1 billion dollar hit to MS is like some regular Joe losing his dollar in a vending machine.
rmw132Nov 29, 2007
The Apple TV really has gone off the radar...