Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Users from Their Data

Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by vkoskiv on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:38AM (#34079903)

The ephemerality of iOS applications is the biggest tragedy in software preservation history. So many memories, so much software history, locked away forever on some Apple internal archive server.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by HPsquared on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:01AM (#34080816)

Whatever happened to oldversion.com?

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by pseudalopex on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:25PM (#34089389)

What do you mean? It has Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android apps.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by HPsquared on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:31AM (#34091516)

I guess it would be nice if they had iOS apps too. Probably various technical/legal reasons though.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by dzhiurgis on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:41AM (#34081273)

I think world might have transitioned past that. Snapchat, Instagram stories all hinge on fact shit moves on. I'd say Slack's best feature on free plan is the fact there isn't way to search all history (potentially wasting you time and giving incorrect outdated information).

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by pseudalopex on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:20PM (#34089349)

Most people never saved most things. You can save things from Snapchat. Instagram didn't obsolete mementos and history.

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