{"id":1598,"date":"2007-10-02T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2193"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:25:03","slug":"re-state-of-the-iphone-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/re-state-of-the-iphone-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: State of the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2007\/october#mon-01-state\">Grubered!<\/a> (thanks, John&#8230; that explains the sudden traffic peak.)<\/p>\n<p>Small addendum. The complexity of the whole updating process also explains two things; first, that some non-modified iPhones are also affected, and second, that Apple, busy with debugging Leopard which should come out this month, didn&#8217;t want to invest additional resources into reverse-engineering and QAing every hack that&#8217;s out there.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding non-modified iPhones being affected &#8211; I hear from some quarters that the quantity of those are comparable to &#8220;bricked&#8221; hacked phones. If true, one more indication that a modern version of that famous saying should be &#8220;never ascribe to malice or incompetence that which can be explained by complexity&#8221;&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> forgot to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/state-of-the-iphone\/\">Michael Tsai<\/a> who linked here first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update#2:<\/strong> another interesting take on the subject of software complexity is Scott Rosenberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamingincode.com\/\">Dreaming in Code<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve just ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grubered! (thanks, John&#8230; that explains the sudden traffic peak.) Small addendum. The complexity of the whole updating process also explains two things; first, that some non-modified iPhones are also affected, and second, that Apple, busy with debugging Leopard which should come out this month, didn&#8217;t want to invest additional resources into reverse-engineering and QAing every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-iphone"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-pM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}