While researching my article on the White Screen of Death problem my Treo is having, I ran across a recent piece by Stewart Alsop where he asks “Do the vendors choose the color of the death screen intentionally?” He says that the screens of death for his favorite gadgets are:
- Blue for many flavors of Microsoft Windows
- Green for TiVo and DirecTiVo
- White for Treo 650
Treo 650 handsets that work on the Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon mobile networks
Stewart and I both have each of these products. I feel fortunate to be able to say that I’ve only seen two of the three screens of death that Stewart has seen. (I own two TiVos, but I’ve never seen the Green Screen of Death.)
I told my friend Chris Nolan about Stewart’s story. She laughed out loud when she heard it because she knows Stewart pretty well. Small world. Chris has a TiVo, but hasn’t experienced the Green Screen of Death either. She has made other platform choices for her computer and her phone, so those two other colored screens don’t apply to her.
Do you know of any screens of death that are notorious because of their telltale color? Let me know by posting a comment and I’ll add them to the story.
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