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On 06/05/17 11:19, Hankat wrote:


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On 06/05/17 08:09, Hankat wrote:


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On Friday, 5 May 2017 23:16:27 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher
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hTrying to phone my neighbour,. No reply. eventually phoned him on
te landline, and invited him for dinner.

"Why didn't you answer your I phone?" "It didn't ring"

Sure enough, it doesn't ring.

Went through every single menu, discover hundreds of combinations
of 'I don't want this phone to ring' and turn them all off.

It still doesn't ring.

two and half hours later I google "My ****ing i-phone won't ring"

And discover that unlike *EVERY OTHER FUNCTION* on the i-phone,
there is a PHYSICAL SWITCH to turn the ringer off. Nothing in any
menu indicated it was turned off. Nor did it come with any manual.

There are people here who say that the linux command line is old
fashioned and opaque. They have obviously never set up an I phone.

So that's 5 hours in total trying to solve basic simple problems
like 'how the **** do I insert the sim card? and 'How the **** do I
get this heap of unadulterated wombat turds to do the MOST BASIC
THING, like ring....

Even my nokia 102 is crap. The old nokias had a green telephone
that you pressed to answer a call, and a red telephone that you
pressed to end the call. Pretty obvious really. the 102 doesn't. It
has an unside down bath symbol and what looks like a speedometer.
They bear no relationship to making a call whatsoever. I am after
over a year still not sure which one does what and often cuts
people off instead of answering the phone.But that doesnt happen
much anyway, because its got a vodaphone sim in, and there is ****
all vodaphone coverage.

What a delight now me mate has gone home and I know that if I want
the internet, I have a well thougfht out Linux machine that
actually works with a reasonably sane user interface, and a
telepone handset connected to copper that always ring and always
gets me connected to the person I am calling...

...Unless they have an I-phone of course.

Lol. Iphones are if anything better than the others in this respect.
And you can't really blame the iphone for the fact that you didn't
RTFM.

There was no ****ing manual!

Corse there is.
http://help.apple.com/iphone/10/

At least Unix came with an online manual.

So do iphones.

Mobiles are squarely marketed at kids, and are a whole lot of
fancy crap over functionality. I suppose that the phone UI isn't
something that has been established & settled over the years to the
same extent that desktop winlin has.

When apple made the first macintosh. OS/9 or whatever it was at least
had a consistent look and feel and some sort of logic to it.

So do iphones.

And it came with a manual.

So do iphones.


No, they do not.

Corse they do. I posted a link.

I actually opened the package. There was a sheet saying 'insert sim
card'

It said a lot more than that.

It took me 2 hours to work out how to do that.

Yes, you are that terminal a ****wit.

That was all it basically said.

Like hell it was.

This is not my phone, its an elderly neighbours phone.

And you were too ****ing stupid to even be able to manage
to use the net and get some info on how to insert the sim card.

No,

Yep.

the point was that this phone and other apple products are marketed as
being really easy to use and get going.

And they are. Whoever sold you the ****ing phone will be
able to tell you how to insert the sim card if you are so ****ing
stupid that you can't work out where to get that basic info.

It was supplied by BT as part of a deal,. to te aforesaid elderly
neighbour. It came in a box with a note from BY which said 'insert sim
card, go one-line and if you have any issues try this link'

And even a terminal ****wit such as yourself should have been
able to work out that however was used to sign up for that deal
can be used to get assistance with how to insert the sim card.

And whatever BT chooses to do in that regard has nothing to do
with apple who provide a variety of ways of assisting terminal
****wits like you with how to do something as basic as that.

Well of course, the sim card could not be inserted. The most basic thing -
the key to actually everything - was inserting the sim card.

Like hell it was.

No instructions were given, although there was a strange paperclip like
device taped to the instructions, there was no mention of what it was for,
anywhere.

And even a terminal ****wit such as yourself should
have been able to work out that you could have asked the
operation that supplied the phone how to actually do that.

Likewise when every single configuration on the phone is done through a
software menu,

Thats another pig ignorant lie.

its reasonable to expect that if it has suffered a configuration change
its down to a software menu misconfiguration.

Only if you are so ****ing stupid that you
are too stupid to do even the most basic
check on the net about the phone not ringing.

Because only a complete **** who has never heard of ergonomics and user
interface consistency would put a tiny ringer mute switch on the case
exactly where you are most likely to accidentally move it when a right
handed user is using the phone.

Even sillier than you usually manage. Its quite a firm switch
and it doesnt switch when you pick up the ****ing phone.

This is the sort of design that causes airliners to crash.

Thanks for that completely superfluous proof of
what a terminal ****wit you have always been.