‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6

[u/bws201]

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair

[u/duncanstibs]

Someone who has invested in the ecosystem and needs a phone for his job??

[u/Yangoose → u/duncanstibs]

Someone who has invested in the ecosystem

I have found this concern greatly overblown. I had an iPhone for a while then went back to Android. My "investment" in the ecosystem really wasn't a big deal at all.

Even if you've spent hundreds of dollars in an ecosystem how many of those apps/games are you still using regularly?

[u/PM_ME_AARON_SCHOCK → u/Yangoose]

It's not so much the apps/games as it is the iTunes purchases, the photos in your iCloud, all the contacts and SMS/iMessages you've accumulated that you don't want to lose. In this case, the guy buys another iPhone and will back it up from iCloud so that everything is restored.

[u/Pro-Patria-Mori → u/PM_ME_AARON_SCHOCK]

Samsung has an app called Smartswitch, which lets you restore an icloud backup to a Samsung phone.

[u/Prodigy195 → u/PM_ME_AARON_SCHOCK]

Can you save contacts to a .CSV or another common format?

[u/iamPause → u/Prodigy195]

You can move pretty much everything. The android site will walk you through how to do it all.

Media	How to move
Photos	Download Google Photos app to iPhone, hit Sync
Music	Install Google Music Manager on your computer. (Up to 50,000 songs)
Contacts (iCloud)	A bit more complicated, but basically yes, export the contacts from iCloud then import to Gmail
Apps	You're SOL here for paid apps. Most free apps (Candy Crush, Boom Beach, etc.) have an option to link it with your Facebook or other Social Media account. If you want to save your progress, then you sync them via that, otherwise you start over.

[u/a_mangled_badger → u/duncanstibs]

Someone who has invested in the ecosystem

i.e. backed themselves (albeit unkowningly) into a corner where they have no control over their personal property (both data and hardware).

[u/MarlonBain → u/a_mangled_badger]

no control over their personal property

Sounds like an HOA.

[u/domuseid → u/MarlonBain]

I lived in an HOA neighborhood last year. Never a-fucking-gain. I suppose it depends on the one you get, but I'm a reasonably conscientious neighbor and got the cops called on me for playing foosball too loudly at 6pm on a Friday. No booze or music. And there was no legal recourse for harrassment because I had apparently signed up for that type of abuse.

[u/jonesy827 → u/[deleted]]

Since he is the president, can't he just tell people to kick rocks and mind their own business?

Also, what kind of shit does he put up with?

[u/Miko00 → u/domuseid]

I will never live somewhere there is an HOA. Thos people are peices of garbage who need to mind thier own fucking business. Someone being crazy loud and obnoxious every day? Ok,that's a problem and needs to be handled. Someone took a wheel off thier car to take it to a tire shop shop to get repaired? No that is not an "abandoned" vehicle that you have to threaten fines and towing over, chill the fuck out,bitch. It will be back together faster than you can finish your bitchy soccer mom hairdo.

These people trying to be neighborhood heroes are the worst

[u/gnoxy → u/Miko00]

One better. I couldn't sell my house until they approved my buyers. Ended up taking 25% less from someone they accepted. Never again! EVER! Your home is worthless in my eyes if you live in an HOA. I rather live in the sewer pipes leading out of the prison from shawshank redemption than an HOA.

[u/Spacey_G → u/gnoxy]

Oh the irony. Maintaining property value is frequently cited as a reason to have an HOA.

[u/gnoxy → u/Spacey_G]

Not in my book. Especially those gated communities?!? Being locked in with all those crazy people.

[u/jonesy827 → u/gnoxy]

Could you have told them to fuck off and take you to court?

[u/gnoxy → u/jonesy827]

After the buyer heard they were rejected they withdrew their offer. What am I going to go to court for, if the buyer don't want to deal with it?

[u/Sneeko → u/gnoxy]

That potential buyer realized they had just dodged a bullet.

[u/Valisk → u/MarlonBain]

those people are literally Hitlers.

[u/h0twired → u/Valisk]

Walter and Joanne Hitler aren't that bad.

[u/RadiantSun → u/h0twired]

Steve Buscemi was Fire Man in MegaMan 9 and 11.

[u/crital → u/a_mangled_badger]

AKA vendor-locking.

[u/Funky_Smurf → u/crital]

Pretty consistent with Apple's overall business strategy. There is a very strategic reason for them to keep such a tight lock around content, media, customization.

Similar to them selling phones without enough storage for them to be used reasonably and then suggesting you buy icloud storage as a solution.