On 23/09/2011, at 16:39, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Tim Connors <tim.w.connors@gmail.com> wrote:
I was curious about this, because I wanted another excuse to laugh at iphones and the hipsters who use them: "haw, your iphone doesn't have a reset button or screws to disassemble it because that would ruin the sleek curves".
The optimistic assumption is that the operating system won't crash. Perhaps it has a microkernel. (They're supposed to be extremely reliable if properly written and verified).
I prefer hardware with a reset button or disassembly options.
I'm not sure of mechanics if it, but it does work even when there is no OS loaded on the device. if an OS reflashing fails, for example, you can use the same mechanism to boot it to DFU mode while it receives a new OS image