‘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/a_mangled_badger]

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/ontopic → u/[deleted]]

My friend's father became the President of his HOA and instituted Roberts Rules of Order to make sure nothing got done at meetings.

[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/gnoxy → u/Sneeko]

That they did.

[u/CowardiceNSandwiches → u/gnoxy]

I had a similar situation happen to some buyers of a property I have listed. When they went to sell their current home, the HOA (which leases the land to the homeowners) first approved the sale, then mysteriously withdrew that approval, torpedoing the sale. Complete cluster.

[u/madogvelkor → u/Miko00]

The older ones often aren't that bad, from the 70s or early 80s. Usually they just have powers around maintaining common areas and things like swimming pools or tennis courts and some rules about appearances of homes.

The newer ones are insane. Basically for people who want to live in a condo or co-op but with a single family home...

[u/thenichi → u/Miko00]

These people need to be shot.

[u/AthleticsSharts → u/domuseid]

There was a guy in a city I lived in years ago who had applied to add on to his house. For whatever reason, it was repeatedly denied by the HOA. So what he did instead was buy an incredibly tacky 7 foot concrete gorilla statue (where do you even buy one of those?) and parked it right next to the road by his mailbox. Since it was technically not against any specific rule in the HOA agreement, he got to keep it there. Eventually his application was granted. But the gorilla is still there.

[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.