Apple Fixes Siri Bug Allowing Access to Photos and Contacts on Locked Device

[morcutt11]

How gross. Pacific Bell logo on a Nokia device. Consumers really need to amp up about this co branding rubbish and tell manufacturers to quit ugly-fying their electronics.

No kidding right!?

 

[tbrinkma]

The funny thing is that android users don't get an option to upgrade and Apple users don't get an option to downgrade. If Apple users had an option to downgrade thier OS , Apples numbers would take a nice hit.

Claim is supposition, unsupported by evidence.

Though yes , buying an android handset does put you at the hands of the manufacturer when it comes to updates and support. Though you will find that many of these handsets run a final version of the last supported os, which is in fact more secure and stable than a brand new flagship handset with latest OS. When it comes to bugs and security, running the latest version of a new OS is the most dangerous, hence why big organisations never run the current OS, but a generation or two behind.

Yes, and no.
Yes, brand new OS versions *are* more likely to exhibit bugs in the new functionality.
No, it isn't safer to run the old versions with regard to security. Quite often, the new version of the OS is the only version in which known security issues from the prior version(s) have been fixed.