gbdoc

Google's probably going to run into trouble with Europe's GDPR rules, some form of which will be adopted in the U.S. sooner or later. That's going to be good for all of us.

I wonder if a future Apple TV might be in the works, something like a real TV, screen, sound and all - which would double as a hi-res monitor.

tommikele said:

gbdoc said:

Interesting, because something similar happened to me UD-ing my iPhone 6s via iTunes, something I'd never encountered before. After installation was apparently finished, my phone went black, iTunes didn't register its presence, I tried turning it on, or off, tapping here and there, unplugging and plugging, but it didn't respond to anything. Panicking briefly, I then found a fix on the net (apparently this has happened to others even before 9.3.2): press and hold the SLEEP/WAKE and HOME buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears, then let go. I did that, and It went on to reboot, installation finished, and all's now well.

So, of course, my phone wasn't bricked, but looked that way at first. I wonder two things: whether at least some of the "bricked" iPads weren't, in fact, so, but could've been revived as my phone was; second, whether my "pseudo-bricking" might have resulted from the same more fundamental update problem, but I only got a non-lethal dose of something that killed others.

Plain and simple - You did a forced reboot. A common fix for all kinds of problems on all kinds of devices. What happened wasn't "similar" to a device becoming bricked. Freeze/lock up does not equal bricking. A bricking is not cured with a restart.

Tommi, you’re right. Had you carefully read and understood my post, you’d’ve noticed that I said so myself. Thus, you seem to have missed the whole point. Your need to be ornery got the better of your thinking. But thanks for your input, which may have clarified this for some people.

Interesting, because something similar happened to me UD-ing my iPhone 6s via iTunes, something I'd never encountered before. After installation was apparently finished, my phone went black, iTunes didn't register its presence, I tried turning it on, or off, tapping here and there, unplugging and plugging, but it didn't respond to anything. Panicking briefly, I then found a fix on the net (apparently this has happened to others even before 9.3.2): press and hold the SLEEP/WAKE and HOME buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears, then let go. I did that, and It went on to reboot, installation finished, and all's now well.

So, of course, my phone wasn't bricked, but looked that way at first. I wonder two things: whether at least some of the "bricked" iPads weren't, in fact, so, but could've been revived as my phone was; second, whether my "pseudo-bricking" might have resulted from the same more fundamental update problem, but I only got a non-lethal dose of something that killed others.

aslo higgens said:

Confused?   Where did this case come from?  I thought the FBI said the terrorist case was a one time deal.   How do you lie like that and get away with it?

Don’t be so harsh. After all, like the All Writs Act, it all depends on your reading. In the FBI’s current reading, “this time” was “one time”. Other times, too, past and present, are each also only “one times”. Of course, it could happen that if any single “one time” were granted by the courts, the FBI might, it just might, subsequently change it’s current reading, so that that “one-time” case would thenceforth be cited by them as precedent, transforming “one time” into “all times”. This isn’t lying, it’s just inventive use of language, as the need arises. Words often mean only what you want them to mean, no more, no less, and meaning is in the eye of the beholder.