Technically speaking the quoted sentence fragment might be correct: other machines on the network are DHCP clients, and an IP address collision (caused by the i

Technically speaking the quoted sentence fragment might be correct: other machines on the network are DHCP clients, and an IP address collision (caused by the iPad's DHCP fail) can lead to them behaving in a way that would be described as a malfunction. That being said, yeah. Not very good. It's a mainstream media article, we'd be waiting for a long while if we wanted them to make sense of technology beyond "ooh, shiny."