Why is it that when electronic devices malfunction, turning them off then on works so frequently?

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E.g computers, Wi-Fi routers, tvs, consoles. All these items malfunction every once in while and all I do is turn them off then on again to get them working again. Why?

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In addition to what everyone else already said, most of the testing for ordinary products is done under ideal conditions; the device just turned on with a fresh software installation and no pre-existing save data. It is more expensive to fully test what happens when a device was left on for a long time, so it is more likely that they missed a problem.

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