Jesus Phone Doesn’t Save

July 24, 2007

Wired author's kids forced to pose for inane picture of them sitting around pretending to pray to the iPhone Leander Kahney has an article over at the Wired “Cult of Mac” site titled The IPhone [sic] Verdict Is In: It’s Finger-Clickin’ Good (alternately you might prefer the printer friendly version but note it will prompt you to print).

He included the above picture of his kids whom he posed in mock prayer (I can’t see them saying “Gee Daddy can we all pretend to pray to your phone? Wouldn’t that be funny?”) so he could beat the “Jesus Phone” dead horse a little longer.

The crux of the article is that he really likes the iPhone even though there’s no way to save a draft of an email on the iPhone unless you try to send the email while there’s no network connection. This is difficult to test because you can’t crash the Mail program on-demand to test what it does in certain circumstances (What happens if you exit the Mail program completely? Does it save a draft then?) but he was operating under the assumption that many of us had, namely that iPhone did some sort of auto-save.

Apparently not.

So he’s written this whole article about the lack of an auto-save or manual save, yet he completely missed the joke waiting to be told, namely that this is evidence that it turns out the Jesus Phone doesn’t save after all.

But hey, he got a picture of his kids praying to it.

  • http://seansperte.com Sean S

    That’s why the world needs better editors, not more writters/bloggers.

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