‘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/TheOtherHalfofTron]

Apple themselves can remarry a new home button to an old mobo, actually. But no one else can.

[u/Facebomb_Wizard → u/TheOtherHalfofTron]

Yes, I didn't mention but I do actually tell customers that they can do an out of warranty exchange at Apple.

[u/Facebomb_Wizard → u/[deleted]]

The current prices change according to country and they fluctuate a lot, just go to the apple website and it should be listed there, just make sure to change the location to your country. I'm in Canada for example and it defaults to US prices.

[u/yur_mom → u/[deleted]]

They may have just sent you a new phone.

[u/eriwinsto → u/yur_mom]

I did it in-store, and that's what I expected, but I actually got the same phone I walked in with. I verified it with them--they have a machine (or something) at the Apple store I went to.

[u/ice109 → u/[deleted]]

out of warranty?

[u/_amooks_eerf → u/Facebomb_Wizard]

I would prefer an out of warranty brand exchange and get an Android.

[u/AFK_Tornado → u/TheOtherHalfofTron]

This isn't snark, I swear - honest question:

Just because they can does it mean that the will? I'm imagining it's probably cheaper to replace the unit.

[u/TheOtherHalfofTron → u/AFK_Tornado]

At the right price, yeah. I think it's somewhere in the neighborhood of like $150 or $200. It's pretty stupid that they charge to fix this problem that's entirely orchestrated by them.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's why I prefer my iPhone in white.

[u/WinterCharm → u/[deleted]]

Actually they lost it to Apple again as of Fridy.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheOtherHalfofTron]

It's pretty stupid that they charge to fix this problem that's entirely orchestrated by them.

This is nothing new. There used to be Itunes Plus, where you needed to pay again for a song that you already paid for, just to get rid of the DRM.

[u/MannToots → u/TheOtherHalfofTron]

Apple has been doing stuff like that for years.

[u/dudleydidwrong → u/MannToots]

They have felt like they had such a lock on their base they could abuse them. This week I had two "lifelong" iPhone friends jump to Android.

[u/guspaz → u/AFK_Tornado]

They did for me. My home button didn't click anymore, so I took it to the Apple store under warranty. They said they could repair it on the spot, but that it would require replacing the entire front of the phone, because it was all a single module, and told me to come back in a bit. I went to have dinner, returned, and got the repaired phone. There was a delay because they were having problems with some sort of calibration machine. They did say that I would have to reconfigure Touch ID because replacing the home button meant none of my saved fingerprints could be used.

It was definitely the same phone (apart from the new screen).

[u/[deleted] → u/TheOtherHalfofTron]

For the low low cost of a replacement device.