I purchased it on launch day so hopefully this is just a first-run QA mix-up, not an indicator of long term trouble with the technology.
However, locking doors is a small example of a long term troubling social trend in the United States, and perhaps the world at large, the decline of social trust.
Beneath the short-term troubles, the company is playing a long game.
The long-term troubles this sort of weather predicts are alarming.
Some past second-term troubles stemmed from hubris, exhaustion or miscalculation; others arrived out of the blue.
communication standard, which the iPhone offers, will be good for Apple product sales in the long run, despite the short-term troubles in China's economy.
Meanwhile, some Japanese financial officials have complained that the decline in the American markets is worsening Japan's long-term troubles, especially for Japanese banks holding American equities.
Some presidential second-term troubles were really manifestations of first-term actions, including the Watergate burglary under Nixon, the secret arms sales to Iran under Reagan, the liaisons by Mr. Clinton and the invasion of Iraq by Mr. Bush.
They harmonised on the themes of mobilising the citizenry, helping the voluntary sector and seeking long-term solutions to the long-term troubles of that non-voting minority the age of prosperity forgot.
What Wall Street refers to as a flight to quality amid short-term troubles often turns out to be a flight to mediocrity over the long haul.
Such upheaval aside, its business as usual on Wall Street: Small investors are repeating past mistakes by focusing on the markets short-term troubles rather than on their own long-term objectives.
