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I guess you can't do the normal phone troubleshoot and remove battery for 30 seconds.

Idk about apple and phones anymore after the last year I am pretty glad I never bought an iphone because at least java based phones are pretty versatile without imposed restrictions.

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The problem with anecdotal evidence is that it is skewed by the vocal minority of people that have had problems with a product. I have had my iPhone for about a 1.5 years and it has worked spittingly. I also use it as a development device so I would imagine that if the garbage collector was inefficient/didn't work at all that problems would rear their ugly head on a dev device.

> I have had my iPhone for about a 1.5 years and it has worked spittingly.

The article is about the latest firmware (3.1) which came out two weeks ago.

True, but I was talking less about the firmware and more about the anecdotal evidence skewing opinion of some product. But here is another anecdote for the world; My iPhone works well even with this latest update.

I see. Anyway, I posted this just to warn people about some possible issues with this update.

If he's using his device for development, then it is possible that he has had beta builds of 3.1 running for a few months.

Oh I understand that people are going to have problems and such, with my current carrier I cannot send/receive picture messages (kind of a plus in my opinion). I was more speaking of the lack of freedom the iphone has experienced with regards to the app store, I understand the store has very many apps but it is highly restricted and monitored something that doesn't appeal to me.

There is no garbage collector.

Maybe your iPhone OS doesn't have GC. His one has it. Another example of anecdotal evidence! ;-)

p.s. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It' just a joke. Please take it lightly.

I was talking about when the app terminates and all the memory is released back to the OS. Not while the app is running.

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