> Manually updating to the production iOS would be fine; but remotely disabling my phone without warning was not acceptable. This is why I refuse to buy an iPho

> Manually updating to the production iOS would be fine; but remotely disabling my phone without warning was not acceptable. This is why I refuse to buy an iPhone. If you're savvy enough to manually upgrade to a beta OS (which comes with tons of warnings) you should be savvy enough to then update to the production release and get all the associated further updates. That's a really bizarre reason to refuse buying an iPhone.