This article is not very helpful. It doesn’t clarify what is meant by the term “green line of death”. Does it brick the phone? Does it make the phone unusable? Is it just annoying? Does it include red lines? Blue lines, black lines, rainbows?
It presents anectdotal evidence of it having happened a lot, but doesn’t give any real numbers. There’s no analysis of the information they do have to say if it’s more often a hardware issue, a software bug, or caused by damage. There’s no indication if there was an attempt to ascertain how often it happens within the warranty period, or if occurrences increase with phone age.
Interviewing a couple friends and a “quick reddit search” is not investigative journalism. The writer didn’t hear back from manufacturers or industry experts, and gave up. So they interviewed a couple more “nerd” friends. Ouch.
Outside of buying and lots of phones, and doing stress tests on them. What else could they have done? Considering, no one bothered to answered. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I left a lot of options open for improving the article from my original comment, but if you want some more details:
- Describe the issue and what forms it comes in to clarify the issue.
- Do a thorough analysis of posts and comments on Reddit (and maybe some other forums, just a thought) to try to get some numbers to indicate how often it happens and what the different causes are.
- Maybe create a survey to try to ascertain some numbers. Reach out to a statistician for some help on how to do that.
- This is a “Senior Editor” at Android Central and they don’t have a single connection to an expert in phone technology. They exhausted all the possible experts out there and didn’t get any responses? Honestly, this means they either don’t know how to write a letter to get an answer from experts, don’t have any compelling data to interest an expert enough to expend their time, or didn’t actually try very hard, or all of the above.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ indeed.
1st and 3rd are doable. 2nd will depend on their expertise.
As for 4th. Yeah, some more effort could’ve been expended on their part.
BTW, you forget a limb for your character \_. When replying on Lemmy (and perhaps the broader fediverse) you need to escape the backslash twice for it to display correctly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
