Yahoo News,All the excitement about the iPhone 5 can come to a screeching halt when you look at the price tag. It's the same price as the iPhone 4S when it debuted: $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32 GB, and $399 for 64GB. But you'll also need to buy a new 2-year agreement with your phone carrier. If you're in the middle of a contract, that's usually not cheap. Check out our Early Termination Fee calculator to see how big the financial hit would be.
Apple ultimately decided to resolve these six-year-old court proceedings and agreed to pay $15 to each impacted iPhone 4s holder.
The Verge: All devices from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X are impacted.
Fair play to them. On the ethical hacker side of things I would use the hack as leverage against Apple to continue to support their equipment. As they just dropped support for their iPad mini2’s etc. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with them, they work perfectly fine but are now blocked from receiving security updates etc. So the consumer is forced to purchase a new product that does the exact same thing.
Apple is on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit from disgruntled iPhone 4s owners. The suit, filed by Chaim Lerman and more than 100 others, alleges Apple's iOS 9 update severely degraded the smartphone's performance both in terms of third-party apps and core functionality.
if you don't care about Siri you can get a iPhone 4 free with a plan.