> Apple cooks up a scheme so creepy that it would give me second thoughts
> about buying one of their products. A built-in system of sensors to monitor
> and log "customer abuse" which apparently includes jailbreaking your iphone
> that has the ability to shut down the product and void the warranty. This is
> far creepier than Windows genuine advantage.
I have long lamented the fact that Apple decided to hitch its cart
to phones, music sales and music players. The one and only affinity I
have for Apple is with their desktop and portable computers and I wish
their primary focus had remained there. I fully realize that the
iPhone and the iPod made mega-bucks for Apple, but that fact is likely
at the root of the problem as described in the article.
How many people brought Apple products to be repaired under warranty
that were broken due to user abuse rather than product defects? Plenty
of them--enough to create this rumor. The warranty covers defects, not
abuse.
However the "water detector" designed in northern California, where it's
usually dry, won't work in Maryland or any place on the East or Gulf
coasts where humidity is very high. High humidity could cause the
detector to register as wet when it's the air that's saturated, rather
than the device having been wet or submerged.
Apple will probably develop a device to make up for humidity, if they do
anything at all. It's a rumor.
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