Apple plugs loopholes in iPhone OS 3.1… old iPod/iPhone users? who cares!

“Policy Requirement – The account… requires encryption which is not supported on this iPhone/iPod”

Well isn’t that nice? all iPhone before 3GS will stop working with this update, if the Exchange server they were connecting has encryption enabled, they will get that error message, and that’s it, buy a new iPhone please, or ask your admin to disable encryption, and yeah, of course, he will not, and other thing, new 3GS devices won’t be able to connect unless encryption is enabled on the Exchange server, bad luck, anyway.. you can always buy a new iPhone right?

Apple has, me thinks, a very bad “don’t fix it, buy a new one” issue, and not only in this case, i don’t know if they will ever release a patch for old iPod and iPhone user’s, but i think they should have done it at the same time that they released this update, but, the thing is, i think they simply don’t care, they have enough rich customers to care about that obsolete bunch who refuses to buy new just because some little change in the OS will result in their devices being unable to do something they were supposed to do, out of the box..

Yeah, there was a bug, and how Apple fixes that bug? well of course by making obsolete who knows how many iPods and iPhones out there, granted, not everybody uses that feature, but i can bet tons of people do, and i just find it ridiculous that i need to buy a new iPhone or iPod just because Apple thinks so, or ask for the admin to turn off encryption on the Exchange server, just because i want to (which will never happen)

This “buy a new one do not fix the old one” thing really has become part of Apple’s identity over the years, consumerism at its best.

Fortunately, i don’t need that feature, but i feel sorry for those who do use it, i really hate it when i am locked out of something i use daily just because someone didn’t even care, and i mean it, they simply didn’t care, this is software, there has to be a way to update old devices, they just don’t care.

More info at Apple Insider