[…] if you don't update, you should expect stuff to stop functioning.
I should EXPECT features that works now to stop working at some point? Why would I expect that? If a feature works today, how and why would it stop working tomorrow?
if you made no changes at all to your phone but it suddenly lost the ability to send text messages, would you think that’s to be expected?
In some cases, yes. A security bug was recently discovered in the ‘walkie talkie’ app on Apple Watch. Apple completely disabled Walkie Talkie, and only restored it with an OS update.
If this lawsuit suit is successful, it could hobble a critical approach to containing security issues like that. More broadly it would have implications on all security updates. Apple and everyone else include security patches with OS updates. Certainly in many cases, the patches can’t be separated from other functionality issues.
So claiming an injury because keeping all functionality requires a free update is probably a dubious claim as well as a really bad precedent.
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In some cases, yes. A security bug was recently discovered in the ‘walkie talkie’ app on Apple Watch. Apple completely disabled Walkie Talkie, and only restored it with an OS update.
If this lawsuit suit is successful, it could hobble a critical approach to containing security issues like that. More broadly it would have implications on all security updates. Apple and everyone else include security patches with OS updates. Certainly in many cases, the patches can’t be separated from other functionality issues.
So claiming an injury because keeping all functionality requires a free update is probably a dubious claim as well as a really bad precedent.