You plug in your USB and it does not fit into the socket. You take it out and try to put it in again upside down. Then you turn it back the other way — and it fits.
I turn the phone on and off, turning off cellular data, notifications and AirDrop. Sometimes, no matter what steps we take to conserve data usage and improve the iPhone's battery life, sometimes the battery only lasts for a couple of hours.
I try to manage the Spam, Bacn, reply alls and round robin emails from my friends at work. It is difficult to keep our email inbox at a manageable level and try to drive towards inbox zero?
There are updates galore - out-of band updates and errors in Microsoft updates. Patch Tuesday only happens once per month so these critical, urgent updates are an extra annoyance to those of us who hate rebooting.
Shared Wi-Fi hotspots are often unreliable. They seem to be especially unreliable when I am working on a deadline and there are other people around using the service.
Product dates slip, schedules change and technology issues hold up delivery. But waiting to get on the coolest beta program ever is just hellish...
It is now a friendly emoticon in Windows 8 instead of instruction set codes and kernel addresses. But I really would prefer the device not to lock up because of a poorly written piece of third party device driver code.
It's about time Microsoft kicked the worst offenders into shape.
There are a few cloud vendors that have managed 100 percent uptime recently including GoGrid, EC2, Linode, Storm on Demand and OpSource Cloud.
Perhaps it is time for me to change providers.
Prices for Apple devices have stayed high — as has its stock price.