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Apple outlaws third-party repairs with vague TouchID-related justifications:
Freelance photographer and self-confessed Apple addict Antonio Olmos says this happened to his phone a few weeks ago after he upgraded his software. Olmos had previously had his handset repaired while on an assignment for the Guardian in Macedonia. “I was in the Balkans covering the refugee crisis in September when I dropped my phone. Because I desperately needed it for work I got it fixed at a local shop, as there are no Apple stores in Macedonia. They repaired the screen and home button, and it worked perfectly.” He says he thought no more about it, until he was sent the standard notification by Apple inviting him to install the latest software. He accepted the upgrade, but within seconds the phone was displaying “error 53” and was, in effect, dead.
Now that is scummy.(tags: apple error-53 ios9 ios phones smartphones touchid via:boingboing)
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good roundup of real-world clock skew links
(tags: clocks clock-skew ntp realtime time bugs distcomp reliability skew)