iPhone 1970 date glitch

[Mr_Brightside_@]

What do you all think I'm normally really good at legal situations and I am not 100% sure on this but I have a feeling that it being a software issue means that technically they should replace it for free or even a significantly less price.

You should be fine, then. Try to get this class-action status if possible.

 

[ApfelKuchen]

It's really quite simple. That iPhone, like most manufactured goods, is warranted against defects and workmanship for a limited time. Like any other defect, Apple is willing to repair it for no charge during the warranty period. Once that warranty expires, sorry, you have to pay.

In this case, they don't have to look for signs of abuse, or get into a pissing match about what you should or shouldn't have done... they just looked at the date of purchase.

If it was up to me? I'd have to classify what you did as abuse, like trying to use the phone to hammer nails. It's not an accident or stupidity - you knew what would happen, and you did it anyway. If some less well-informed person did it, or was tricked into it... I'd have a heart and fix it for free. You? No chance. "Apple will be issuing a free software fix. You can wait until it's available. If you needed the phone that badly, you shouldn't have performed experiments on it."

 

[Charadis]

Why would you ever change the date of a device to 1970?

I'm a test engineer. In my line of work, this is the equivalent of going into the registry, changing a random value to 2, and rebooting.

It's as unwarranted.

Just playing devils advocate here 🙂 but I remember that one bug where someone intentionally sent a certain text message to someone and cause the receiver's iPhone to crash and reboot.

What if someone got ahold of their friends/coworkers/moms/brothers/sisters iPhone and set the date back to "mess" with them or experiment to see that this date bug actually worked.

It's easier changing a phone's date than it is editing registry info, in my opinion 😉

 

[eyoungren]

What if someone got ahold of their friends/coworkers/moms/brothers/sisters iPhone and set the date back to "mess" with them…

Considering that I was born in 1970, this is a presumption I think has some merit. 😀

 

[aristobrat]

What if someone got ahold of their friends/coworkers/moms/brothers/sisters iPhone and set the date back to "mess" with them or experiment to see that this date bug actually worked.

Continuing the advocacy of the devil 🙂, what's the difference between someone doing that and someone putting their friends/coworkers/moms/brothers/sisters phone into the microwave or dishwasher? They're all intentional acts of misuse, no?

 

[C DM]

I love how everyone is defending Apple. Changing the date on your phone should not brick the device, period. Maybe someone was looking for a specific day of the week of someone who was born in 1970, and they didn't know any better and thought the easiest way would be to set the date on their phone to that specific date, and see what day of the week it was.

I'd say the reasoning doesn't even matter--if the device was damaged by the OS itself with a user using the provided features within the OS and not doing anything outside of what the manufacturer of the device and the OS themselves provides (and surely Apple provides a way to change the date) then really the manufacturer should have some provisions in place to deal with that damage that is caused by a basic setting in their own software without cost to the user.
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Continuing the advocacy of the devil 🙂, what's the difference between someone doing that and someone putting their friends/coworkers/moms/brothers/sisters phone into the microwave or dishwasher? They're all intentional acts of misuse, no?

One is just changing the date setting on the phone using the options provided by the manufacturer--basically absolutely no expectation or even suspicion that something would or even could go wrong given that the ability to change that setting is clearly provided by the manufacturer, and another is doing something that clearly isn't even similar to that.

 

[Sketchr]

You should be fine, then. Try to get this class-action status if possible.

and this line of reasoning is why insurance costs so much. The save consumers from themselves coverage.

 

[aristobrat]

One is just changing the date setting on the phone using the options provided by the manufacturer--basically absolutely no expectation or even suspicion that something would or even could go wrong given that the ability to change that setting is clearly provided by the manufacturer, and another is doing something that clearly isn't even similar to that.

Hmmm. The specifics listed in Charades' post were:

1 - 'set the date back to "mess" with them'
2 - 'or experiment to see that this date bug actually worked'.

To me, that covers both expectation (1) and suspicion (2) that damage would occur, which IMO makes it just as dumb as intentionally physically damaging their friends phone. Either way, their friend is without a working phone.

 

[timeconsumer]

Why would somebody even need to set the date back to 1970? I can understand wanting to reference the calendar to see what day a specific date was. But I can't figure out why somebody would actually need to set the date of the device back to 1970.