Apple's Phil Schiller was keen to stress that iPhone 4S is completely new on the inside, but the world likes Apple products because of how they look on the outside. A better camera and a faster processor don't mean much to the man on the street.
Okay, so iPhone 4S has more going for it than that, including a neat-looking voice recognition-powered personal assistant called Siri. But the reception has undeniably been muted.
Is the iPhone 4S really a letdown? Or has it simply collided with its own inexorable hype machine?
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.
