iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-repaired screens

Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by stingraycharles on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:30PM (#16802644)

This is precisely the kind of stuff that Microsoft is famous for, and it is entirely possible. Heck, third party hardware is what made PCs great. I think, however, that there is a difference in customer base; Microsoft caters to businesses, Apple to consumers.

When Microsoft breaks a third party app/device with a Windows Service Pack, Microsoft needs to fix this otherwise their customers get angry. When Apple breaks a third party app, they require the customer or third party app provider to fix it, because Apple is inherently a company that wants to control the whole stack and doesn’t embrace an open ecosystem.

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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by kbenson on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:45PM (#16802785)

It's amazing that I find myself thinking that Microsoft of the 90's and early 2000's as actually being a more open and accommodating company and windows being a more open and accommodating environment than Apple and iOS today.

Whether Microsoft had no choice and would have been worse if they could in this respect, the fact they they weren't and I think Apple is, and Microsoft was widely lambasted as money driven (e.g. M$) and evil at the time, and Apple largely gets a pass now, is interesting. That could be because Apple is better at managing image, or because people's perceptions and what they expect has shifted, or because there's a lot more bad (and worse) actors out there now that make Apple look better in comparison. It's hard to tell exactly why it's looked upon more favorably now, but I do believe my thoughts on Apple to be accurate, and I'm not sure how to feel about that.

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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by bitL on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:01PM (#16802923)

Fruit company pulls the plug on anyone who writes anything bad about them. No more marketing money, no more freebies, so publishers think twice about it.

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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by aroch on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:38PM (#16802735)

There's a major difference here: a 3rd party computer part drawing 5% more current than expected probably won't cause issues (There are however many of cases where they do...) whereas a component drawing 5% more current on a phone may cause a shutdown.

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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by pwinnski on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:05PM (#16802965)

When Microsoft broke third-party stuff, the end result didn't cause fires. It was also done very deliberately to damage competitors, according to information revealed at trial.

Software companies can do things a bit differently from hardware companies.

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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by scarface74 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:20PM (#16804927)

Can you imagine the maintenance nightmare in having special case hacks just to support bugs by one program? I read some of the MS blogs where they detailed all of the workarounds they've had to do. It has to make Windows less stable and harder to maintain.

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