Apple's in your iPhone, reading your diagnostic information

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jun 30th 2007 at 9:06PM

Rest easy. Yes, your iPhone may crash from time to time (as ours did just a few minutes ago while changing volume), but at least Apple's gonna know about it. This is the message you get after plugging your iPhone into your comptuer when it's packing "diagnostic information" that Cupertino wants to get its paws on. No, you don't have to hit "Send to Apple" -- but for the good of iPhone users everywhere, we might recommend it.

Filed under: Software, Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: apple, diagnostic, diagnostic information, DiagnosticInformation, iphone

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Martin @ Jun 30th 2007 10:09PM

Okay, I didn't care before about it, but now it's just getting ridiculous. Did Engadget Mobile REALLY just post something about whether or not to send Bug Feedback Reports to Apple. I think I have to draw the line here. I was okay with everything else until this. EVERYONE knows about how to send feeback reports. We don't need a post on a tech blog on how to f*ing do it.

And please don't respond to this saying "Oh you just don't like Apple" No, unlike most anti-Apple/ATT posts on here I actually have an iPhone and am not just mad because I can't get one (which is generally what most peoples stupid comments boil down to). So let's keep this post clean and let me sum everything up.

This is where I (your average rational person) draw the line on ridiculous. And I swear to god if I see one more person say how the iPhone is overhyped or there is too much news on it I'm going to blow something up. Don't be mad just cause you don't have ATT or can't afford one.

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JimD @ Jul 1st 2007 1:16AM

What, you mean to tell me that you didn't read the article entitled... "A note on all the iPhone coverage"?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/30/a-note-on-all-the-iphone-coverage/

Give it a rest already. All this bitching and complaining about all the coverage of the iPhone is getting older than the articles about the iPhone. This is engadget.com. You know...enGADGET.com? Damn idiots.

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hunterluke @ Aug 13th 2007 5:04AM

ipod blend is the best in slow mo but when the iphone turned black inside the blender I was like HOLY SH1T!! I already bought a blendtec blender, they rock for everything including edible materials such as food!

http://www.dvdtoiphoneconverter.org/

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Gabe @ Jul 1st 2007 3:54AM

will this let them know that i have been watching porn all day on my IPhone off of my neighbors wifi connection?

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scotty.davenport @ Jul 1st 2007 9:34AM

I'm betting this is about as useful as the completely WORTHLESS Send to Microsoft button. I hope you don't have to use it as much as I see it on a daily basis in XP!

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Chris G @ Jul 1st 2007 10:26AM

iPhones are a closed platform for stability. This makes them incapable of crashing. You must all be mistaken.

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Chris McDowell @ Jul 1st 2007 10:41AM

Mine did not crash but when I plugged it in to sync after half the day of using it I got this prompt up asking to send in some info. Maybe something behind the scenes went down but the phone kept on going fine.

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EngadgetFanBoi @ Jul 1st 2007 11:30AM

this is at least the third time engadget has used this joke. boo.

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