It having a dead battery with no way to charge it or having no service would just be too improbable. In this case, he could have used a computer instead unless it also depended on the landline for connectivity. note It would be plausible only if it broke too late for Kevin's parents to get a replacement in time. it being broken would be the only somewhat plausible minor hurdle. If Kevin had a cellphone, note Even if just the low end one described above. Even invoking Cell Phones Are Useless wouldn't have worked very well. Since the family only had forty-five minutes to get from their house to the airport before the plane took off, they would have effectively missed the flight. note And "lengthy" is not an exaggeration in this instance it's often recommended that passengers arrive to the airport three hours before the flight even takes off for international flights, and all passengers should be at the boarding gate at least thirty minutes before departure. A perfect example of this would be Home Alone - the film was originally released on November 16, 1990, however within twenty years, the entire movie likely would have lasted about half an hour at most once you realize that a power outage likely wouldn't have caused a cell phone's alarm clock to reset like the plug-in alarm clock was, cell service wouldn't have been disrupted in the same way the landlines were and in post-9/11 America, the family would have had plenty of time to realize that Kevin was missing due to the very lengthy amount of time it takes to travel through American airports due to security screenings, baggage checks, and so on. Somewhat related are those moments during not-so-old films where you realize the entire plot could be resolved with something the world takes for granted today cell phones, for instance. Because of this, most writers nowadays don't get too specific about computer performance, to avoid sounding dated before.well, before next week, frankly. However, technology has moved on so far and so fast that Chandler's computer is now unimaginably primitive within twenty years of the episode's first airdate, even a low-end smartphone was over a hundred times more powerful than that in every way, while fitting in the user's pocket and costing less than a tenth of what his company would have spent. There was a time when these specifications would be mockingly contrasted with a then-modern counterpart. At that airdate, those features were quite impressive, especially for a laptop. "Twelve megabytes of RAM, five hundred megabyte hard drive, with built-in spreadsheet capabilities and a modem that transmits at over 28,000 bps!" note Episode "The One With The List", first airdate November 16, 1995.
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