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Apple Has Stopped iOS Downgrading

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fun-while-it-lasted dept.

An anonymous reader noted a forum post seems to confirmApple will be fighting downgrading in iOS 5. Quoting: "This will only affect restores starting at iOS5 and onward, and Apple will be able to flip that switch off and on at will (by opening or closing the APTicket signing window for that firmware, like they do for the BBTicket)."

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  1. Re:I found... by repetty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple has this way of forcing you to upgrade your hardware by making it useless via forcing you to upgrade your software. This guarantees that you'll always be out buying the newest hardware so that you can continue to be a loyal customer to them.

    Forcing you to upgrade your software? Offering features that sound good isn't exactly FORCING you to upgrade.

    Actually, this is a very good point and one of the glaring problems that Apple iPhone and Apps Store has: No user-oriented software version control. (The vendor-oriented software version controls seems to work fine.)

    Yes, you can upgrade wholesale but you cannot really manage your software with their version control.

    Want to skip a version? Fuck you.
    Want to roll back to a better, older, previously paid-for version? Fuck you.
    Have to do a restore but like the older version? Fuck you.

    iPhone users have little of the control that Mac OS X users are accustomed to. Really sucks and one reason I'm worried as Apple transmutes Mac OS X into a iOS clone.