Tuesday, November 23, 2010

When a reset is news

So why is it newsworthy to post because my EVO spontaneously rebooted today? After all with my long history using Windows Mobile devices soft resets, unexepected or otherwise, were a way of life. Heck, even my Palm Pre treated me to Luna restarts fairly regularly and a number of soft resets.
But when my EVO up and spontaneously rebooted itself this morning I was truly surprised...because it's a rare occurrence. I can recall two other occurrences since July. And I beta test software people. I have never had an OS, desktop or mobile, recover so gracefully from misbehaving apps and run away processes. It's not perfect but it's a real treat relatively speaking.
So if you can cut through all the wailing about Android fragmentation I think you'll find there's something pretty good going on here.