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Originally Posted by eTurtle
Can you be a little more specific as to what quantity defines "quite a few"? 1 out of 10? 2? 3?
Can you also be a little more specific as to what defines a "strange app"?
Any app that defies installation on the edge. There are techniques to force it, but there are minefields and booby traps that exist in the hardware, firmware and OS that are awaiting any wrong step. All, of course unintended, but nevertheless there (see unfinished development).
TIA for any elucidation you attempt.
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I'm sorry that I didn't track the actual occurrences. The search function on this forum is a little vague in getting actual numbers. I think that I personally have read about 9 or 10 episodes of WSOD since I first signed into the forum, including my first unit. There are what seems to be many posts reporting bricked units and not too many of them end happily.
Let's face it, people are having a lot of fun with the PE and the EE. Some folks, unfortunately, paid full price for them and then Entourage abandoned them. Others, such as myself, got in for bargain basement prices. There are some folks who tend to savagely defend any position that they have taken (like purchasing one of the edges). I think, however, that I can almost guarantee you that 1 year from now this forum, if it's still around will be a shadow of what it is today. I have other units of this type on the shelf - has anybody ever heard of the Netappliance?
There are far superior products that didn't make the cut (HP Touchpad). It's a fact of technological life (Electronic Darwinism?). But I guess Darwin is a whole other issue.