[chmod775]

You live in NY on supposedly a NY income and waste hundreds of hours trying to get a $300 (now $150 new) phone fixed?

The reason I bought a 4a is because if it has any issues I'm going to get a new one. At this point you would've been better off moonlighting a minimum wage job for 30 hours and using that money to replace the phone with a much nicer model. Why would you do this to yourself?

[nickjj]

It's about the principle of the matter. A 2 trillion dollar company rendered my perfectly working phone close to unusable and every visit to their official repair center broke it even further.

I picked the 4a because I liked its small size, wired headphone jack and the camera is great. It was 100% fine before all of this started and probably would have lasted until the hardware naturally died. It ran everything I wanted super smoothly.

A more modern phone that's heavier, larger and requires babysitting bluetooth earbuds is a downgrade in my book.