living with the iPhone - crashes
Now that I'm a few weeks into my relationship with my iPhone, he's started to leave the cap off of the toothpaste tube.
The issue is application crashing. It actually took me a little while to figure out that I was seeing crashes. I'd touch an app button and find myself at my home screen, and think that I must've touched something else on the screen instead of the button that I wanted. Unlike on my Mac with its 'The application [whatever] quit unexpectedly' dialog, the iPhone doesn't tell me when an app has crashed, I just find myself at the home screen. I wonder if this lack of user feedback on application crash was an oversight or if it was intentional.
Crashes seem to happen most often in Safari, although that might simply be because it's the application that I interact with the most on my iPhone. I haven't noticed that a particular website is more likely to make it crash. It's pretty good, although not perfect, about reverting to a useful state in terms of the windows that I had open when I re-launch.
Yesterday morning, as I was using the calendar app (which I use in list view because it reminds me of My Day) to see what my day was to hold for me, the whole phone froze. None of the hardware buttons did anything. After a few minutes of fiddling, I finally had to do a hard reset. If you haven't had to do it yet, you simply hold down the sleep button on top of the phone and the home button. After a few seconds, the familiar Apple logo will appear, and you can let go of the buttons.
Yesterday evening, I watched someone else struggle with Google Maps. It kept on crashing when he would use the arrow buttons to move between steps in the driving directions. He finally gave up on using it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still happy. I've even ordered a new foofpod to keep him snug and safe in my purse, since I like the foofbag that I use for Bernard the Blackbook so much. I can't stay starry-eyed forever, and this is one of the main things that has snapped me out of my initial intense fangirl drooling. But I am still in love, and waiting breathlessly for the iPhone's first software update.
