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Technology Stocks : Apps for Apple iOS and OSX devices
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To: yofal who wrote (836)1/10/2017 10:50:46 PM
From: TimF   of 848
 
If you can't use you phone it effectively bricked. Maybe since that status was apparently temporary "semi-bricked" or "disabled" might be better. But at the time it happened the phones were rendered inoperative with no fix and no communication that there would be a future fix so at the time "bricked" seems reasonable.

The fingerprint reader gives access to the device but it isn't the only way to access the device. You can disable it without disabling the whole phone.

And the way they handled it doesn't make a ton of sense as a security measure either, having non-authorized repair people fix your phone (including doing it yourself for those with the requisite skills) is questionable as a security breech to say the least, as is having some types of non-total physical damage to your phone and not bothering to get it repaired by an officially authorized repair person because you don't get it repaired at all.

and once people did this the phones kept working for some time, it wasn't a quick security patch or .xx update they waited until the next whole number update, then without warning disabled the whole phone.

None of which is a general put down of Apple or iphones, just a very legitimate complaint about this particular action.
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