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Underwater App for iPhone announced!
12 years ago
I heard that a lot of iPhone users are proving Darwin correct with this latest fail trend of instant-water-proofed phones. I came up with a little metaphorical tale explaining what should have been glaringly obvious to every user above age 10
Do you really think that by upgrading your phone's Operating System that the hardware is also upgraded? That is physically impossible.
Think of it like this:
Let's imagine you bought a really nice, luxury sedan. Voice Navigation GPS, Satellite Radio, Heated Seats... the works.
Say that a few weeks to a month after you drove the car off the lot and have been using it on a daily basis, the car maker/dealership (hypothetically) offers to upgrade the interior for free!
So you send it in and wait (like every other iDevice user). When you finally get it back... Wow! Instead of fabric cushion seats, you have (faux) suede leather. The dashboard is now leather instead of vinyl with imitation wood trimming all around the interior. Even the floor looks like it was made using the fanciest material available.
Later that week, you read a post online claiming that the upgrades that everyone got makes your car float like a boat! Just by having the inside of the cabin upgraded, the rest of the vehicle is magically able to drive in and out of water and not have catastrophic damage done to the engine and the electronics inside!
Even though there is clearly no signs of new or additional seals around the doors, hood, or even the trunk (and the complete lack of a seamless, sealed undercarriage), you take your freshly upgraded car to the cabin and deftly drive it into the lake to go fishing.
But alas!
The only fishing to be done will be by the Tow Truck as he pulls your sunken car from the bottom of the lake.
It takes but a moment of logical thinking to prevent a financial loss due to a lack of common sense.
Do you really think that by upgrading your phone's Operating System that the hardware is also upgraded? That is physically impossible.
Think of it like this:
Let's imagine you bought a really nice, luxury sedan. Voice Navigation GPS, Satellite Radio, Heated Seats... the works.
Say that a few weeks to a month after you drove the car off the lot and have been using it on a daily basis, the car maker/dealership (hypothetically) offers to upgrade the interior for free!
So you send it in and wait (like every other iDevice user). When you finally get it back... Wow! Instead of fabric cushion seats, you have (faux) suede leather. The dashboard is now leather instead of vinyl with imitation wood trimming all around the interior. Even the floor looks like it was made using the fanciest material available.
Later that week, you read a post online claiming that the upgrades that everyone got makes your car float like a boat! Just by having the inside of the cabin upgraded, the rest of the vehicle is magically able to drive in and out of water and not have catastrophic damage done to the engine and the electronics inside!
Even though there is clearly no signs of new or additional seals around the doors, hood, or even the trunk (and the complete lack of a seamless, sealed undercarriage), you take your freshly upgraded car to the cabin and deftly drive it into the lake to go fishing.
But alas!
The only fishing to be done will be by the Tow Truck as he pulls your sunken car from the bottom of the lake.
It takes but a moment of logical thinking to prevent a financial loss due to a lack of common sense.
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That said, the idea that a software upgrade will make your device waterproof. Umm, yeah. Maybe these people are the sort of people who shouldn't be allowed on the internet.