Tonight I felt a great disturbance in the force, like a million tech-savvy smartphone owners cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
Okay, not silenced - the general apathy after the unveiling of the iPhone 4S earlier this evening continues on Twitter and internet forums. But the disturbance in the otherwise normal balance between praise and disappointment at a new Apple product was for once firmly tipped towards the latter.
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.
