Apple is so confident that its iPhone is unbreakable that it has decided to extend that closed garden.
The iPhone has issues, but Apple has really got on its high horse now. It is so confident that nothing can or will go wrong that it has decided to, quite literally, close it off to the public.
According to sources, the company is replacing screws on iPhones which are brought in for servicing with tamper-proof alternatives - which it hopes will stop people from fiddling with the device and prevent them from replacing the battery.
The latter means that Apple will now be able to fleece its customers for more cash as only qualified people will be able to open the device, and probably charge double for the privilege.
Currently the company will replace iPhone batteries free if the device is under warranty, but otherwise charges $79, a price tag many were able to avoid by opening the device and buying a battery from a supplier.
Two people with first-hand knowledge of the practice told Fox News that when a customer brings an iPhone 4 into a US Apple store for repair, tech staff have now been ordered to swap out the commonly-used Phillips screws, with which the device is shipped, and replace them with so-called "Pentalobe" screws.
Pentalobe screws require a screwdriver that is not commercially available, meaning Apple can supply these to its service staff minions and demand they charge extra.
However, iFixit, a site that's well known for cheeky Apple antics, has already started advising customers of a way to get around this.
It has found a screwdriver that works for the 5-point “Pentalobe” fasteners on the iPhone 4 case, which although isn't a true Pentalobe driver — the tip is more star shaped than “flowery,” so there may be some slight play in the fit when using - can unfasten these screws meaning you can replace them with the standard Philips ones.
Take a bite on that, Apple.
For those tired of their futuristic tendencies, having analysed, plotted and planned 25/8, for starters, the “Stock Price/Value”. When something has only limited value as per its [near absolute] costings, where do the extras come from? Really? Hands up those who could see only entrepreneurialship and justifications. That then is one abandonment, oka the lack of absoluteness of valuation. Is that enough of a push to venture further onto uncovering other abandonments? When all life is the result of that fiery rock called The Sun, where the hell did fabulous wealth comes from? Really? That deluded eh?
The liver is on the right side and the right stands for [and is] activity. The heart is on the left side and the left stands for inactivity. But guess what, the heart rules the brain. Just look an the pulsation of the unclosed fontanalle bone area of infants - it pulsates as the heart beats. Is that telling you something or does the marketing of some gizmo to opportunise that situation springs into mind. Are you a genetic of The Bookie? Becareful for death does not mean the end, it is merely another beginning - should there bge “life” after [mere physical] death.
The heart rules all because from it sprang the physical cosmos. The heart has four absolute aspects and they are, Innocence, Desire, Detachment and Absoluteness. The real heart and not the relative heart because to the relative heart, those aspects are the lack of innocence/chastity, impure desires like Count: de Money, the mistress-es, the Swiss accounts and the chemistry and drugging sessions, being attached, oka to own and being owned at the same moment, and relativities - not realising/the inability to realise what absolutes are. There, enough fairytales to start another bestseller to engage, oka to dupe, the stupid and the dumb/illusionals and the delusionals. The engagement between two differing energy levels always result in the loss of the higher energy to the lower energy and before anyone runs away with this seemingly simplicity, should you meet with Destruction, you will always be the loser. That means Destruction has the lower [the lowest in fact because Destruction is merely a myth] energy level. Problem then is, what is Destruction? Those who do not realise this fact absolutely ought to be careful when surrendering their sanity willy-nilly to any proclaimed saviour. There, that should prepare the mood for the forthcoming Hallelujah Session.
You would have ppl who not like iPhone use Windows phones == exactly the dualistic good/evil world view Nick describes.
Yet who would buy an iPhone or a WinPhone when there are a number of better alternatives to both?
Sing a kyrie for Lord Jobs, you'll feel better.
You would have ppl who not like iPhone use Windows phones == exactly the dualistic good/evil world view Nick describes.
Yet who would buy an iPhone or a WinPhone when there are a number of better alternatives to both?
Say a kyrie for Lord Jobs, you'll feel better.