SmashingHub - iPhone 4S is obviously better than iPhone 4 on the whole as it boasts faster hardware, ameliorated battery life and a better camera, but all these things were no surprize as everyone had already expected these changes. The real surprise for everyone was the voice-activated technology called Siri. If Siri sounds familiar, then you might have used the free Siri Assistant app that let you find restaurants, movies and taxis but this app is no more in the App Store.
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.
Siri is brilliant.