Apple will be able to update iPhones while they’re still in the box, report claims::No more updating right after you unpack your iPhone.
They’ll only update in the box. So you have to keep the box for the life of the phone and every so often put it back in so it’ll update.
After a decade and a half of “just in case” box saving, I am ready. This is my moment.
But don’t worry, if your box is lost or damaged they’ll offer a replacement for only $179.99.
The box, you say?
(Happy Halloween!)
So, when I had google fi, the phones I got from them would already arrive signed into my account, I always wondered how it was done.
IMEI number linked to your account, maybe.
The same with Firetv.
This makes me think that malware will be able to be in an iPhone even before it is taken out of the box. I wonder if this will become an issue in the future. I suppose time, good research, and effective journalism will let us know.
Neither IOS nor Android have a meaningful malware concern. Both are very locked down sandboxed systems of which the easiest to infect, Android requires the user to deliberately disable safety features in order to install.
As incompetent as Apple is when it comes to the quality of their devices I can’t imagine how they’d fuck it up enough to enable any random dumbass to upload malware directly to the devices wirelessly. This kinda stuff has sorta been figured out for more than a decade
Are you aware of Pegasus? 0 interaction required. The hackers just need your phone number and for your phone to receive a text. They can then go and remove the payload text since they have full access to your phone leaving you with zero trace of being infected.
This is obviously not a worry for the average person but to say iOS and Android do not have a meaningful malware concern is just false.
This is how Kashoghi was spied on by the Saudis and eventually murdered.
They turned his phone into a spy device.
As long as you aren’t a journalist, that’s not really a problem.
In most cases…
Wouldn’t this require the phones in the box to be charged above some percentage? Also if they can turn it on wirelessly I can only assume it’s using BLE and I hope the feature is off once the user sets the phone up.
No more tedious updating after unpacking the new iphone, instead you can now tediously wait already after buying it while we do it for you through the box.
At least make us laugh with the apple trolling. This doesn’t even make sense. The whole point of it is to avoid this.
So they’re going to update the entire stock one by one without charging it every update? The only other way is to only do it one time when the phone is bought. Which will take the same amount of time in the store… 🤷♂️
“Well, while you are in the store, waiting, anyway, why don’t you spend that time looking at our other offers? Maybe you need some accessories to go with that new phone of yours?”
Even if that’s the case that would save time since you have to drive back home to unbox the new phone, and in the meantime it could update.
Sooo, if they charge it in the store you’re not gonna take it home and unbox it?.. The order of doing those doesn’t change the time they take… 😅
