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Technology Stocks : Apps for Apple iOS and OSX devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (828)2/11/2016 6:29:28 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 848
 
The fact that the design decision had a good purpose behind it, doesn't make it a good design decision.

1 - You don't need to brick the whole phone to protect the integrity of the feature.

2 - In addition to that it could be argued that protecting the feature is not worth bricking the phone even if it was necessary. This is by far the weakest point of the three. Protecting something that acts as authorization for a pay system is important. The damage for each person hacked through this weakness could easily be more then the cost of a phone (even if the person hacked doesn't have to pay the cost because they are covered for fraudulent transactions, the cost doesn't actually go away), but how many people would that happen to without this protection, that won't get hacked because of this protection. I don't think it would be a very large number. Also the cost of the phone might be a far lower cost then the cost of lost data in some cases.

3 - If your going to have a brick your phone "feature". You should let people know about it before hand. People who have already had non-Apple repairs would know not to update iOS. People who haven't would know that they have to choose between having iOS updates and non-Apple repairs.

Ideology has nothing to do with any of that.
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