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>> including basically becoming bricks, all on their own. > I don't think it's bad luck I’ve owned around 30 iPhones, 20 iPads, 10 iPod Touches, 8 Apple Watch
by jsjohnst 5y ago
>> including basically becoming bricks, all on their own.
> I don't think it's bad luck
I’ve owned around 30 iPhones, 20 iPads, 10 iPod Touches, 8 Apple Watches, 15 MBPs, 4 Mac Pros, 2 iMacs, 5 AirPods, etc etc putting them through hell in many cases (including testing unproven baseband, iBoot, and other firmware exploits), yet have never had an Apple device “basically become a brick, _all on their own_”. So either I have the worlds best luck, or my point stands about yours. I’m not calling you a liar, but at minimum your comment was hyperbolic.
- richardwhiuk 5y ago30 iPhones? What you doing with them? Eating them?
- jsjohnst 5y agoThe number is actually a bit higher than that actually, but there’s at least 30 that I know where they are. The 7 generations after the first one (aka 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 5C) had multiple different baseband variations and for several reasons (one of which I previously mentioned) required me having one of each. After I was done using them and had restored them to stock (always kept at least one of each generation jailbreaked though), I’d rent them out to friends who lived in SF/NYC who needed to test their apps on older versions of phones or with specific OS versions (as back then, I could install almost any OS version on demand). I made enough doing that to continue my trend of buying multiple of every generation up to the iPhone 8. Around that time factors changed and beginning with the iPhone X, I started buying just one from each generation. So long story short, that’s one way that someone ends up with lots of iPhones.