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recylingbin · 05-02-2016 9:23pm #1

Not content with stopping you from using the software you want to with their devices, Apple have now locked people out of their own phones.
It seems that if you have had work done on an iPhone 6/s/turbo sport by a non authorised apple repairer, then updating to iOS 9 will brick your device.
And apple will do nothing about it.

What a bunch of uber cnuts.

Clem H Fandango · 05-02-2016 9:37pm

Eh, if you checked your facts, it's to stop unauthorised 3rd parties from stealing your fingerprint info and using it to access your personal files or use it to buy stuff using whatever credit card you have on file or install a fake finger print reader and get your details through that. If you go to some dodgy back street dealer to fix your phone, then tough.
But don't let the facts hinder your ill-informed hissy fit.

recylingbin · 05-02-2016 9:45pm

Clem H Fandango wrote: »

Eh, if you checked your facts, it's to stop unauthorised 3rd parties from stealing your fingerprint info and using it to access your personal files or use it to buy stuff using whatever credit card you have on file or install a fake finger print reader and get your details through that. If you go to some dodgy back street dealer to fix your phone, then tough.
But don't let the facts hinder your ill-informed hissy fit.

Tell that to the people whose phone has been turned into a paperweight.

Don't let your fanboyism get in the way of a couple of hundred thousand people feeling slightly peeved that their 700 euro phone no longer works.

Clem H Fandango · 05-02-2016 9:47pm

recylingbin wrote: »

Don't let your fanboyism get in the way of a couple of hundred thousand people feeling slightly peeved that their 700 euro phone no longer works.

Don't agree with you so that makes me a fanboy, good man. You'd be whinging if someone bought a bunch of stuff using your stolen finger print and blaming apple for being thieves so it's a lose lose situation.

cml387 · 05-02-2016 9:48pm

Repeat after me .

Apple are great.
Apple can do no wrong.
All praise the Apple.

LDN_Irish · 05-02-2016 9:49pm

Clem H Fandango wrote: »

Don't agree with you so that makes me a fanboy, good man. You'd be whinging if someone bought a bunch of stuff using your stolen finger print and blaming apple for being thieves so it's a lose lose situation.

Bollocks is it. If your details got stolen by someone who worked on your phone then it'd be your fault. If Apple steal the functionality of your phone to get a monopoly on fixing iDevices it's theirs.

recylingbin · 05-02-2016 9:53pm

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair

recylingbin · 05-02-2016 9:57pm

Clem H Fandango wrote: »

Don't agree with you so that makes me a fanboy, good man. You'd be whinging if someone bought a bunch of stuff using your stolen finger print and blaming apple for being thieves so it's a lose lose situation.

No, no I wouldn't.

kneemos · 05-02-2016 10:00pm

700 quid for a phone?

Probably used to being screwed.

Eugene Norman · 05-02-2016 10:09pm

Once again Android fans get OUTRAGED!! about a phone they would never use. It's sad sackary of the highest order.

freedominacup · 05-02-2016 10:13pm

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Once again Android fans get OUTRAGED!! about a phone they would never use. It's sad sackary of the highest order.

Android fans? Wtf? Is that even a thing? Do they have a website or a clubhouse or what?

recylingbin · 05-02-2016 10:18pm

freedominacup wrote: »

Android fans? Wtf? Is that even a thing? Do they have a website or a clubhouse or what?

We all meet up in the national aquatic centre on the 3rd of every month. You should come sometime . its mad craic.

Eugene Norman · 05-02-2016 10:23pm

freedominacup wrote: »

Android fans? Wtf? Is that even a thing? Do they have a website or a clubhouse or what?

They have a forum. Many in fact.

They keep starting threads on iPhones. Sad group.

As for what Apple are doing here. Error 53 could do with a bit more explanation but given that the touchID protects the phone, Apple Pay (and thus your bank account), and other apps including banking apps this precaution is justified, and well done to them.

Google probably just hand all fingerprint data to the NSA and a few million advertisers.

Eugene Norman · 05-02-2016 10:25pm

recylingbin wrote: »

We all meet up in the national aquatic centre on the 3rd of every month. You should come sometime . its mad craic.

You all meet up in mammys basement.

Of course there are normal android users. They buy cheap android devices and don't give a sh1t about other phones.

Then there are the anti-Apple obsessives, saddest group of losers on gods green earth.

05-02-2016 10:26pm

People are very touchy about the brand of phone they and other people have aren't they?

It's hilariously pathetic.

05-02-2016 10:29pm

God. I love having an Android phone.

kneemos · 05-02-2016 10:31pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

God. I love having an Android phone.

It's a brotherhood.

05-02-2016 10:32pm

They're just better phones -shrugs-

Cienciano · 05-02-2016 11:01pm

Jesus, is there still apple v android debates? It's a poxy phone, they're all the poxy same.

Mint Sauce · 05-02-2016 11:17pm

Posted from Windows Phone

Do miss some of my Android Apps though.

biko · 06-02-2016 12:02am

I hope this will be another nail in the coffin of Steve Jobs.
But if people can take the debacle that is iTunes I guess they'll take anything..

cml387 · 06-02-2016 12:21am

Deleted User wrote: »

People are very touchy about the brand of phone they and other people have aren't they?

It's hilariously pathetic.

Unfortunately it is the doom of homo sapiens to divide into camps over anything (men of course).

Rangers v Celtic
Apple v Whatever
Munster v Leinster
Snow v No Snow (see weather forum)
Airbus v Boeing (oh yes, believe me)

Senna · 06-02-2016 12:24am

cml387 wrote: »

Unfortunately it is the doom of homo sapiens to divide into camps over anything (men of course).

Rangers v Celtic
Apple v Whatever
Munster v Leinster
Snow v No Snow (see weather forum)
Airbus v Boeing (oh yes, believe me)

Not just men!

Spit vs Swallow
diagonal vs horizontal cut sandwiches
Etc

PucaMama · 06-02-2016 12:27am

biko wrote: »

I hope this will be another nail in the coffin of Steve Jobs.
But if people can take the debacle that is iTunes I guess they'll take anything..

Bit distasteful the man is dead I'm sure he had nothing to do with this

cml387 · 06-02-2016 12:27am

Senna wrote: »

Not just men!

Spit vs Swallow
diagonal vs horizontal cut sandwiches
Etc

Senna v Prost

The Backwards Man · 06-02-2016 12:29am

Philips v Tefal

06-02-2016 12:32am

Eugene Norman wrote: »

You all meet up in mammys basement.

Of course there are normal android users. They buy cheap android devices and don't give a sh1t about other phones.

Then there are the anti-Apple obsessives, saddest group of losers on gods green earth.

2nd saddest

wendell borton · 06-02-2016 12:50am

Playstation V. XPOX

Birneybau · 06-02-2016 2:21am

cml387 wrote: »

Senna v Prost

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Philips v Tefal

wendell borton wrote: »

Playstation V. XPOX

Zig v Zag.

06-02-2016 9:31am

I never have anything important enough on my phone to warrant a finger print.. An awful lot of people don't. So the excuse that this is to protect users from malicious tampering is ridiculous.

Just go back to the passcode if bricking 700euro devices is considered responsible.

CruelCoin · 06-02-2016 10:02am

cml387 wrote: »

Unfortunately it is the doom of homo sapiens to divide into camps over anything (men of course).

Rangers v Celtic
Apple v Whatever
Munster v Leinster
Snow v No Snow (see weather forum)
Airbus v Boeing (oh yes, believe me)

Dreamliner all the way.

A380 is just a ****ing cattle truck.

Menas · 06-02-2016 10:22am

Tell you what, if this does not damage their brand loyalty then nothing will. Hell of a way to treat your customers.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35502030

Menas · 06-02-2016 10:22am

Tell you what, if this does not damage their brand loyalty then nothing will. Hell of a way to treat your customers.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35502030

06-02-2016 12:04pm

Clem H Fandango wrote: »

Don't agree with you so that makes me a fanboy, good man. You'd be whinging if someone bought a bunch of stuff using your stolen finger print and blaming apple for being thieves so it's a lose lose situation.

What if I buy a replacement screen online and want to fix my my phone screen myself ?

I would never buy an apple product ever. I have in the past but the way Android has come on in years I dont know why anyone would buy an Iphone.

Mesrine65 · 06-02-2016 12:06pm

Cyanogen Mod FTW

:P

06-02-2016 12:11pm

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Cyanogen Mod FTW :P

Yeah! I don't know how people don't like having freedom over their phone and be allowed do what they want to it, after they spend so much freaking money on it.

FishOnABike · 06-02-2016 12:39pm

Birneybau wrote: »

Zig v Zag.

No, just no. It has to be Zig and Zag they're a team. Anything else would just be incomplete. Either on their own would be like having Batman without Robin, the Lone Ranger without Tonto or the Blues Brother - it just wouldn't be the same.

KilOit · 06-02-2016 12:51pm

Think this issue was the same for iphone 5 no? but if the fingerprint wasn't working you just add to key in your password instead.

This time around they lock you out completely with no option of entering your details and just disabling the touchID.
id be furious!

Reading into on Reddit, an Apple service rep was told to recommend third party repair venders to customers, which he did, to thousands of them! a lot of countries don't have official Apple repair shops so they have no choice to but to go to third party venders

06-02-2016 1:00pm

Still better than having to use android.

Mesrine65 · 06-02-2016 1:01pm

Joslyn Thoughtless Guitar wrote: »

Still better than having to use android.

:pac::pac::pac:

kneemos · 06-02-2016 1:04pm

Joslyn Thoughtless Guitar wrote: »

Still better than having to use android.

Now.

Maximus Alexander · 06-02-2016 1:06pm

Any other company in the world would be lambasted for this. Apple has people falling over themselves to defend it. :rolleyes:

hatrickpatrick · 06-02-2016 1:36pm

Clem H Fandango wrote: »

Eh, if you checked your facts, it's to stop unauthorised 3rd parties from stealing your fingerprint info and using it to access your personal files or use it to buy stuff using whatever credit card you have on file or install a fake finger print reader and get your details through that. If you go to some dodgy back street dealer to fix your phone, then tough.
But don't let the facts hinder your ill-informed hissy fit.

Without a warning that this could happen or a way to override it without paying for a full replacement, I'm afraid this is just a BS excuse from Apple. I'm a loyal Apple customer and I for one am not going to defend this, it's absolute bullsh!t and I hope Apple face a serious backlash because of it.

06-02-2016 1:39pm

Joslyn Thoughtless Guitar wrote: »

Still better than having to use android.

Have you ever actually used one?

Doctor DooM · 06-02-2016 2:31pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Have you ever actually used one?

Part of my job is to decide what devices find their way into different users hands.

If I'm looking for something un****uppable and easily understandable, I'll go for iPhone every single time. They're in the Nokia space, and just like nokia there's plenty of alternatives I'd recommend to people who don't NEED simple (remember the sony Ericsson K750i and k800i? Savage phones! ). Experience bears out over and over again that this is the right choice (you'd be amazed the ways people manage to find new and interesting ways to mess their phones up and then hide how they did it).

I use an android, and would recommend one every time for someone who knows what they're doing and enjoys fiddling with the device to optimise it for their use!

Laphroaig52 · 08-02-2016 5:42pm

Birneybau wrote: »

Zig v Zag.

Heinz vs. Chef

PC Lackey · 08-02-2016 5:46pm

recylingbin wrote: »

Tell that to the people whose phone has been turned into a paperweight.

Don't let your fanboyism get in the way of a couple of hundred thousand people feeling slightly peeved that their 700 euro phone no longer works.

Its for the good of the collective.

Some must die so that the cause can live on.

Jobs would approve.

Stinicker · 08-02-2016 5:55pm

Lots of gobsh1tes making easy money buying knock-off screens on eBay and the likes for €10 and charging €100 will lose alot of money. Xbox and Playstation have both being doing similar things for several years. I see nothing wrong with it.

I never had to have any of my iPhones repaired but around a year ago I tried to persuade a friend of mine to send her iPhone 5s back to Apple for a screen change after she cracked the glass, instead she got some local lad to change the glass and he kept her phone over a week and was almost as expensive. I guess she will have to send it back now for an authorized repair.

I would always reccomend sending back the phone to Apple for repairs if it was necessary as I upgrade on a 2 year cycle and my phone always is within warranty, at least you'd have comeback as alot of these "Phone Repair Shops" are fly by night operations often run by foreigners which don't seem to last very long and I have seen several to open and subsequently close locally in the last few years.

ScumLord · 08-02-2016 5:57pm

recylingbin wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair

staff told him there was nothing they could do, and that his phone was now junk. He had to pay £270 for a replacement and is furious.

Lol, he's pissed off, yet hands over another £270 straight away.

Boom_Bap · 08-02-2016 6:06pm

Apple have been doing this forever, it's nothing new that they want to contain repairs and alterations of their devices/hardware to themselves.
They even have their own type of screw they use, this dates back to the iMac I believe.

Falcon L · 08-02-2016 6:09pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Apple have been doing this forever, it's nothing new that they want to contain repairs and alterations of their devices/hardware to themselves.
They even have their own type of screw they use, this dates back to the iMac I believe.

Isn't that the problem. Having paid for it, isn't it supposed to be yours?

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