[david_mitchell]

I don't see why people are upset or surprised about this. Apple is a pioneer in making electronics difficult to open up and play with.

It has always been their approach to control every interaction that every customer has with every part of their business and every product produced by it.

Accept it or use something else.

[stinos]

upset or surprised

suprised maybe not so much, but it seems pretty obvious one would get upset if his/hers go-to device is suddenly rendered practically useless?

[david_mitchell]

I accept your correction. In fact, now I think about it, essentially 0% of apple customers would likely be aware of this possibility at the time they make their purchase. I should have considered that most consumers won't follow stories like this as closely as the tech crowd.

I do stand by my assertion that it is legitimate for apple to behave in this way though. They get to present their business as they choose to just like any other company and the customer get to choose whether to accept their terms. Personally I don't but, empirically, most other people seem to.

I would however support requirements (as legislation) that consumers should be made aware of such practices at the point of purchase such that they can factor it into their buying decision.

[everyone]

Yeah, Apple are evil geniuses. They are prodigies at making money and expanding their business, at the expense of their users. It also seems like a majority of people on this site have some kind of Stockholm syndrome with regard to Apple. I guess making people reliant and locked in to their system is part of their genius. Of course people in that situation will find ingenious logical contortions to go through to justify their continued faith.

Also, mass downvoting of this comment in 3. 2. 1 ...

[matthewmacleod]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

You will, of course, be down voted – because of your childish insistence that anybody who thinks differently from you is suffering from some kind of illness.