Any update with any system has a chance of bricking.
The only way to have a aystem that will never ever break is don't use electronics ever.
And, like so many 'major flaws' this one is not universal as a design flaw would be.
But by all means, please go to Apple and tell them how they should be doing things. I'm sure Sir Jony and friends will welcome the instruction since they are so dumb
I'm sure they know how to do it, but the downside is that there is extra cost involved. So it comes down to a cost-benefit analysis, is the extra cost of including the feature more than the cost of dealing with support issues and negative feelings of users. Probably not is the answer.
I work every day with a piece of electronics that has a system that makes it impossible for us to "brick" it, even though we do regularly update the "firmware" on it, so I'm not just pissing in the wind here. The reason our electronics has this system in place has it is because the cost of bricking it would be to kill something that cost $350 million, not including the cost of launching it into space.
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Originally Posted by charlituna
Any update with any system has a chance of bricking.
The only way to have a aystem that will never ever break is don't use electronics ever.
And, like so many 'major flaws' this one is not universal as a design flaw would be.
But by all means, please go to Apple and tell them how they should be doing things. I'm sure Sir Jony and friends will welcome the instruction since they are so dumb
I'm sure they know how to do it, but the downside is that there is extra cost involved. So it comes down to a cost-benefit analysis, is the extra cost of including the feature more than the cost of dealing with support issues and negative feelings of users. Probably not is the answer.
I work every day with a piece of electronics that has a system that makes it impossible for us to "brick" it, even though we do regularly update the "firmware" on it, so I'm not just pissing in the wind here. The reason our electronics has this system in place has it is because the cost of bricking it would be to kill something that cost $350 million, not including the cost of launching it into space.