You have to prove that, not merely allege it. Proceed.
Certificates expire. What was Apple's nefarious motivation for having to re-issue hundreds of PKG installers?
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Lawsuit Alleges Apple Broke FaceTime on iOS 6 to Force iOS 7 Upgrades, Save Money
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Certificates expire. What was Apple's nefarious motivation for having to re-issue hundreds of PKG installers?
So you are telling me that improving encryption or switching to a better communications protocol is damage of property.
Face it, iOS 6 has been discontinued. Product updates are not required to be backwards compatible for such an old release.
Unless you have an iPad 1, you can upgrade all the way to at least iOS 9.
Clearly the most absurd statement I've read in a very long time. This is "alternative facts" carried to an unbelievable extreme. If the software is so bad, why do you still have any apple products? Hypocrisy?
Where is your proof? Or do you just repeat whatever absurdity you hear? If apple is so bad, how can you continue to use apple products? Isn't it time for you to move over to windows, please.
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So you believe everything you read without confirmation? How very sad.
So basically by that logic if you buy a car and one day you come out and the built-in radio and navigation system stops working because the manufacturer decided to just disable it, it's all good and fine for you as the customer because the company is out to make money and can just disable things that you use because they feel like it?
Why does it matter that Apple pulled out of its deal with Akamai? This class action lawsuit isn't going to give Akamai a penny. "Apple was bad to Akamai, so Apple should pay me." Uh, no.
Apple paid Akamai for a service. Apple found a way to stop using that service. If Apple violated its "data deal" with Akamai, then Akamai was within its rights to sue Apple. If Apple didn't violate their deal with Akamai... You mean to tell me you've never stopped using a product or service because you don't need it any more?
I bought my own house, so I moved and don't have to pay rent any more. Since I "screwed" my landlord out of the money I used to pay him, do I owe money to everyone who had to update their address books????
What if Apple had said, "We've discontinued FaceTime, but we now have FaceTime 2. If you want to use FaceTime 2, then you need to upgrade your software?" Would some people be pissed off? Sure. Would they have a leg to stand on in court? Not likely.
Let me fix that for you: "Reasonable functionality? Planned obsolescence? Meh... Just buy a new one every year."
Planned Obsolescence is why Apple profit margins are so high in recent years: If you don't buy a new one, you're SOL.
Constant "FaceTime reconnecting..." Every device, ever since the forced update to 7.
Cheers mate . Yeah I've switched it off, just disappointed that by design it's daily spam
That seems like something else (even though it's FaceTime related), as this is about FaceTime not working in iOS 6 and iOS 7 and later not having those issues.
Yes, I'm constantly fumbling in the music app because they added so many long, input-blocking animations. Back when I used to jailbreak, the first thing I'd do is disable ALL animations. Made the experience so much better. Hmm, tempted to jailbreak now that the jailbreak is open-source again...
I don't normally go for these sorts of things, but I'm still using iOS 6 and though I don't really care anymore, it pissed me off when FaceTime stopped working. I've used iPhones on various newer versions of iOS and always found iOS 6 better than anything newer for my uses, never having any of the myriad of issues everyone I know is always struggling with. Apple's never taking my beautiful, stable OS.
Ya, likely a different suit for my issue. Support pages flooded with the issue, and it started exactly at that update. Certainly related and caused by the repercussions of the virnetX suit against apple.
Thanks for talking about off topic material such as encryption and MISSING THE ISSUE of Apple inserting code into iOS 6 designed to BREAK FACETIME. That's what the article is about. That's what the documents allege. People suspected it, now we have the evidence to back up the hunch.
Inserting code into software that kills features is completely damaging property. We call this viruses, malware, ransomware etc. CUSTOMERS bought iPhone iPad with iOS 6 because it has FaceTime. CUSTOMERS should expect what they bought should continue to work whether or not they upgrade. That's simple to understand.
Customers, paying customers, had the choice of staying on iOS 6 and have Apple kill one of the main features, FaceTime, or update to iOS 7 and have the update kill the usability of the device by slowing it down, causing jittery performance, app crashes and incompatibility etc.
Plain and simple, Apple effectively inserted a virus code into iOS 6 designed to kill FaceTime. It might not have affected you, but it affected millions of other users.
I'm shocked and disappointed with Apple. An interesting legal case to be following. I hope the judgement is extremely impactful so that this kind of thing doesn't occur ever again.
Agree. 6 was probably most stable. The snow leopard of iOS.
I remember when this happened - yeah, it's from Apple usual bag of dirty tricks to play on customers.
I'd rather just seek damages for all the years Apple declared no-one wants a phone with a bigger screen.
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I'd rather just seek damages for all the years Apple screwed their customers on RAM and storage pricing.
I still use that app (rather, v1.1.2 not 1.0.x, but it looks extremely similar). One of my favorite designs.Do you miss this?
I'd rather just seek damages for all the customers that purchased the fatal-design-flaw iPhone6.
People should have a right to run any iOS version on their phones. Even Apple talked about iOS 7 as "like having an entirely new device" and some were happy with the device they already bought.
iOS 5's FaceTime certificates didn't expire within a year of iOS 6 being released. They actually had the same certificates along with iOS 4. They purposefully didn't extend it for iOS 6 because they wanted it to die quickly. 7.0 betas had the fix before iOS 6 was discontinued and they left iOS 6 as it was anyway, knowing that it would stop working in 2014.
It just figures that this kind of issue only happened to occur on the most controversial iOS update ever. You didn't see iOS 5 dying after iOS 6 came out because iOS 6 didn't have active hatred, nor did it make devices unusably slow.
iOS 5's FaceTime certificates didn't expire within a year of iOS 6 being released. They actually had the same certificates along with iOS 4. They purposefully didn't extend it for iOS 6 because they wanted it to die quickly. 7.0 betas had the fix before iOS 6 was discontinued and they left iOS 6 as it was anyway, knowing that it would stop working in 2014.
It just figures that this kind of issue only happened to occur on the most controversial iOS update ever. You didn't see iOS 5 dying after iOS 6 came out because iOS 6 didn't have active hatred, nor did it make devices unusably slow.
There's a solution: Update to a newer version of iOS.
This is starting to sound like the DOS vs Windows upgrade all over again.
Even the beta releases were largely stable. I remember having tested throughout 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and 6, at least in terms of stability, was actually quite reliable.