Apple to brick non-approved repairs

[gramps]

you just playing with words on this and tying yourself up in knots.
semantics.

I MAY live, my CHOICE.

you bought apple, you opted out of choice.

Nonsense ... it's my phone, not Apple's, I should be free to do whatever I want with it, repairs included.

 

[Mr Bump]

Nonsense ... it's my phone, not Apple's, I should be free to do whatever I want with it, repairs included.

Apple has been a complete restricted closed eco system for years you're kidding yourself

 

[Retune]

Sorry but I don't read they are sabotaging the hardware, I read that unauthorized or 3rd party repairs that may compromise the security of the device will render it inoperative?

Apple is no longer claiming that bricking the iPhones was a security measure - the story now is that this happened by 'mistake'. Apple already had a perfectly good mechanism for preserving security on repaired phones (disabling Touch ID, but not the entire phone), so it was hard to justify going any further than this. It would be even harder to pretend the new feature, which allows them to disable a whole laptop after unauthorised repairs that mostly have nothing to do with security, as a 'protective' measure (if they actually use it). Neutral observers would conclude that the only thing they were protecting was their bottom line.

 

[Neilc28]

Sure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/9l2v3z/windows_1809_update_wiped_my_documents/

And just in case you think it's Reddit's scare mongering, here's what M$ have to say on the matter



Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history

This was nowhere near as prevelant as the media claimed, although it was a quite severe issue it was one whereby it affected people who had already configured folder-redirection, to quote MS it was "one one-hundredth of one percent of version 1809 installs".

As with all OS upgrades, backup first, MacOS had a considerably bad rep over the last couple of years with some Mac's that wouldn't boot following the upgrade. Effectively QA across all platforms has gone to the dogs..