The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 06/05/17 09:55, wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2017 07:54:20 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:


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"


The switch on the side to mute the phone is one of its best features.
Extremely user-friendly. Of course I read the manual when I first used
the phone, which is only sensible. There's a very good user guide on
the
phone as well.

No there isn't any manual
On or off the phone.


Bought both ours 2nd hand so no manual, the volume controls and mute
switch are fairly obvious and were about the first items found when
looking at them.
Surprised that you did not try some fingerpoken on any controls
first or have both your neighbour and yourself got so conditioned to
software controlled devices that trying anything like a physical
button to see what it does no longer comes naturally.

Perhaps you had better become the Unnatural Philosopher.

Sure your neighbour wasn't looking for an excuse not to experience
your cooking?

Quite the reverse. he was paranoid because no one could phone him,. I
found 30 missed calls on the phone. Including the one saying 'please
pick me up from hospital'

It was failure to get through to him then that alerted me to the fact
that his brand spanking new I phone that he expects me to support,
wasn't working and he had inadvertently finger pokened it.

My failure to actually fix it for hours, is a complete indictment of the
myth that 'apple products are so intuitive you don't need a manual'

I think its an emperors new clothes thing. Apple is so **** but the
marketing is so good that no one dares admit they haven't a clue how to
use the ****ing things.

I am sure that samsung and microsoft are even worse.


G.Harman





Well, Asus is nearly as bad as Apple IME. That also has a tendency to
randomly lose emails for some reason. Equally bad, it updates the OS and
buggers up the apps you have installed on a random basis. Android IME
has a naturally crap email system. The camera function is also not good
even with a 13Mp sensor. Using it as a phone is not nearly as good as a
Doro.