Crazy that this works. There are some really smart people in this world.
Also cool to see a company invest money into something like this simply for the impact to the customer experience.
The Apple Store experience was so different from what shopping for a computer used to be like. Knowledgeable, friendly staff, computers you can actually use instead of just playing screen savers, and training, repairs, and support at the same place. Not at all like going to a Best Buy or Circuit City.
My experience has been them selling me products that don’t work with my macbook(too old and they said it will work). In the last few years the quality of service has dropped. They claim to have fixed my macbooks multiple times but no parts have been changed and the issues are still present after the supposed repair. Previously (pre 2019) had excellent service from the 3 local stores. Since then it has been equal to best buy. They are no better or worse than any other in my experience, just another company trying to sell you products and get out of servicing them.
Eh, it is a qI charger that turns on the phone, the phone is then programmed to connect to specific network and download the firmware, not that crazy.
I do like iPhones, but there is no need to go crazy about this
Apple are much much smarter than me, so I’m sure have mitigated against this, but this feels like a securirty nightmare waiting to happen:
Bad guy gets hold of the technology, works out an exploit to send unofficial update and then “patches” a containership full of iPhones.
I think this is very clever, a great idea. I also think someone is going to figure out how to turn on iphones via NFC and upload malware of some kind.
All OS updates are signed If what you are saying were possible, then all phones would always be susceptible to a man in the middle attack of someone faking apple’s server to send a fake OS update. All this seems to be is a qi charger that has the ability to also turn the phone on / off then it can just connect to apple’s server and update itself like normal.
I doubt it? I’m not sure how it works but I could definitely see it working without having to transfer any data at all. All it has to be is a glorified QI charger and the phone can auto-update itself from Apple’s servers just like any other iPhone.