When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January, I wrote,

The other problem is that computers are inherently buggy. Macs crash, and it’s frustrating when they do. It’s even more frustrating, however, when your music player crashes, and if your phone or your TV crashes, you’ll probably want to tear your hair out. The iPhone is so complex — it’s got an accelerometer in it to detect when you flip it sideways, it’s got a proximity sensor to tell when it’s near your face, it’s got to understand myriad finger gestures — that crashing, or at least slowing down, the way an overworked computer sometimes does, might be a real possibility.

A bunch of MacHeads jumped on me for that, claiming that Macs never crash and that Apple’s phone would be similarly solid. This was absurd; the Mac OS is very forgiving, and you’ve got to do a lot of crazy things to it to bring it down, but it certainly can crash. (For examples, see here and here.) And iPods — if you’ve never crashed your iPod, you’ve never used your iPod; who of us isn’t familiar with the Menu + Select button method of reseting an unresponsive Pod?

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