GYGG:
"The thought of an iPhone that looked the same as the previous model did not sit well with everyone at first, but with staggering record breaking sales topping 4 million devices sold in one weekend, what made everyone finally decide to buy the iPhone 4S? We’ve got the answers, but beware: the answers may surprise you."
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.
The sad thing is...none are surprising. One of my friends bought a 4S to commemorate Jobs' death :|
yup, not just your friend, alot of people are actually buying the iPhone 4S because it was the last iPhone "Steve" worked on.
Seriously.