So, Chris Mills, how nice of you to decide for everyone that third party repair shops are “dodgy” - but then again, I shouldn’t be surprised with the education level that your content tends to show. It is 100% true that there are a number of “dodgy” repair shops out there, but there are (most likely) far more of us…

This is so far from the truth, I can’t believe somebody actually wrote this garbage. This article is so one sided, and you do not provide anything to the contrary.

If that’s the case then why wasn’t it bricked right after the repair? Are you saying Apple released the iPhone without proper software security to match the hardware inside of it and it was only made truly secure with a OS upgrade months later ?

the latest (non) issue to befall Cupertino

unintended consequence (for a tiny minority!) of bricking their devices.

...affecting only users who took their iPhones to dodgy third-party repair services for a broken screen...

Chris, if you want to write like a real journalist you can’t let your fanboyism shine through. Apple has every right to refuse to repair a phone that has been tampered with and has even the right to put a sensor in the phone to detect this. However, it has no right to make a phone unusable just because the owner…

You sir, are an asshole for saying 3rd party repair people are “dodgy”!! (some definitely are)

Yeah I’m a little confused here. Buying an iPhone isn’t leasing or licensing a phone; it’s literal ownership of a physical device. Software based hardware checks should most certainly be FLAGGED, but not brick the device. It would be akin to a Playstation 4 locking up because you attached a homebrew controller to it.

Apple goofed on this, they better eat shit on this and satisfy the aggrieved, or it will be another Android talking point

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 outlaws manufacturers forcing customers to use only their repair shops. It’s called “Creating a Monopoly” and “Restraint of Trade”.