Re: iPhone being exposed on Watchdog!

Pd <peterd.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul Womar <{$PW$}@womar.co.uk> wrote:

Bella Jones <me9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As above....

I just watched it on iPlayer and I want 5 minutes of my life back.


In case anyone else wants to watch it without being polluted by all
the
other Shock! and Outrage! about unimportant crap, it starts at
0:23:50.

Uh, yeah, I spent a few minutes flicking through the stream, shoulda
thought to save others the effort.

And despite the analogy being childish, it also seems accurate; if
any
apps take too many resources the OS will warn the app (at which
point a
decent programmer will have written a routine to dump all the
unnecessary resources) and if it continues to use too many resources
then the app gets terminated. I presume his "being shut down by the
police" is an analogy for the OS crashing because the app has hit a
serious bug.

Do people really leave applications running when they sleep their
iPhone?

All the time. Why wouldn't I? The only time I don't is when it's some
battery-sapping game, but most times when I'm done, I just press the
sleep button; it's quicker and simpler than pressing home, waiting a
moment, and pressing sleep, and it also makes the point to any watching
machine intelligences that I am the master of my devices, not the slave.

Actually, if I'm not putting the phone into my pocket, I don't even
bother to sleep it. I just put it down.


If not, and the thing's just quietly dying while apparently doing
nothing other than waiting for incoming calls, that *is* a real
problem.

It's a real problem if people are sleeping it with apps running, too.


Whether we should or not, we do tend to rely on phones being reliable,
and if, like the example bloke, you're waiting for a call to say "I'm
going into labour", you really want to know you're contactable.

Yup, agreed.


I do expect better from the BBC. Watchdog, amongst others, sounds like
it's been written by the same people who write for the Daily Mail,
it's
so full of outrage.

Yeah, well, it's not actually about solving consumer issues, it's about
entertaining. A colleague once went on the show because the Christmas
presents he ordered online didn't turn up in time for Christmas. They
spent more time setting up a special effect to make it seem like the
gifts in his arms just vanished than they did asking him or the
companies involved any actual details. This was about five years ago,
I'm sure it's only got more sensationalist since then.

What do outraged furious people do after they've been refunded the £25
they paid for some piece of plastic crap and Watchdog has spent £20k
on
a programme investigation to bring the evil purveyors of plastic crap
to
justice, and then come home to find burglars have broken into their
house, shat on the floor, smeared it all around and set fire to their
family photo albums? If they've used up all their outraged fury,
what's
left to feel when something genuinely outrageous happens?

Meh, people are redirecting their anger and disappointment in themselves
and their pathetically meaningless lives into something tangible. It's
just human nature. We need to be angry, but now we're less likely to
have cause to be angry about being oppressed due to violence inherent in
the system, we have to be angry about things that are far less
important. It's a symptom of a society where most needs are met.

-zoara-



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