SquareTrade Study: iPhones more reliable than BlackBerry, Treo

Some of us have that special touch with hardware, where it fails in spite of us being extra nice to it. I'm like that too. :)

That's funny. It happens so infrequently that I've always attributed it to the device. Maybe I should look within....

Oh definitely!

With Wii's still outselling both 360's and PS3's (with really no problems, RROD etc.), after this holiday season, the Wii with put "another nail in the coffin" of the console market that was heavily dominated by Xbox and Playstation. Bye, bye Microsoft and Sony.

/sarcasm

(why do people have to post stupid comments like that? That's great you love your iPhone, it's a great device but please refrain from making stupid remarks.)

My thoughts exactly. If this only covers SquareTrade warranties, that sounds to me like it would only be covering devices sold through a means in which SquareTrade applies (i.e. eBay auctions, *possibly* a carrier if they use them, but unlikely). So unless they are analyzing Apple's return data, they are not really getting an accurate showing.

In my experience, most of the problems had with the iPhone (both personally and from what I've seen by others) has been when the phone gets bricked -- just stops working entirely, for no reason at all. Another common one is the screen getting physically broken, but I wouldn't say that really counts as a device failure unless it cracks by itself.

Presumably Square has a certain number of iPhones under warranty contract and they know how many of those break. It's a sample, not the entire population of iPhones, but there's no reason to suspect that the ones covered by Square are any more or less likely to break than those covered by Apple.

Sounds to me like you're not too familiar with consumer electronic failure rates.

If 94% of your units work through the first year, then you're doing awfully well.