iPhone restore error 53 - not listed anywhere, what is the problem? has anyone seen it before???

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I paid $1.339 yesterday 😉

I think that I paid even less than that but i obviously don't have a receipt to check. Of course, you're up at Exit 18 while I'm down at Exit 5 and that makes a big difference.

The irony is I have a plug-in hybrid. But given the cost of electricity in NJ vs the cost of gas, it's cheaper to put gas in the car than to charge the battery using the plug-in feature.

Let's be honest. Gasoline is the ONLY thing that's inexpensive in NJ. Don't even get me started about property tax.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I paid $1.339 yesterday 😉

I think that I paid even less than that but i obviously don't have a receipt to check. Of course, you're up at Exit 18 while I'm down at Exit 5 and that makes a big difference.

The irony is I have a plug-in hybrid. But given the cost of electricity in NJ vs the cost of gas, it's cheaper to put gas in the car than to charge the battery using the plug-in feature.

My electrician housemate and I were just talking about the relative costs of electric vs gas vehicles this evening. I'll have to pass on that tidbit to him.

Again being somewhat anal about semantics, you're talking about gasoline. Gas is somewhat inexpensive in New Jersey and the comparison of gas heat vs. electric heat is is almost a joke. No sane person would choose electric heat in NJ. Tell the electrician that I paid $0.17/kwh for electricity last month and $0.61/therm for gas. Both, of course, are a sliding scale based on volume but those figures are the net result. By the way, it takes 29.3kwh to produce the same energy as is produced by one therm!

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I paid $1.339 yesterday 😉

The station in my neighborhood is $2.05 but, near work, 30 blocks away, $1.85. Both were Sunoco.

Try Ajax or Cheapo Chuckie! Gasoline is gasoline is gasoline.

Philly_Phan wrote:

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I paid $1.339 yesterday 😉

The station in my neighborhood is $2.05 but, near work, 30 blocks away, $1.85. Both were Sunoco.

Try Ajax or Cheapo Chuckie! Gasoline is gasoline is gasoline.

There are neither of those anywhere near where I live. I don't go out of my way to buy gas. I don't drive enough to justify driving for miles to safe a few cents.

Philly_Phan wrote:

I made up the names Ajax and Cheapo Chuckie.

Yes, dear, I know. 😉

There are very few gasoline stations in my part of the city. So, pretty much, big name brand or drive a number of miles.

My (slightly crazy) brother carries a can of gasoline so that, if he doesn't make it to the much cheaper gasoline station he knows is just a little further before he runs dry, he can fill up. I've always wondered what the extra weight over time does to the couple of pennies per gallon savings.

Philly_Phan wrote:

You might tell him that gasoline goes stale in a month or two and could damage the engine (even if authorized).

Also, I'm not certain but I believe that it's illegal (safety).

This is the man who won't wear seat belts because the government tells him he has to. If they didn't, he'd probably wear them.

Perhaps my sentiment of a week ago or so (that I would not buy an iPhone 6), which generated so much complaining by people with huge numbers of posts, in its small way helped to prod Apple into fixing this.

Whatever the reason why they looked into the matter, it took an awful long time before coming up with a solution. This thread started in September 2014.

It just doesn't look good from Apple's side. But also from the support community. Go to Samsung or LG is never a good solution.

Seriously, the phrase came about for very good reason and is so widely used for the same reason. People who drink the Kool-Aid are indeed unquestioningly obediant. The shoe and the phrase fit.

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bobfromlosangeles wrote:

People who drink the Kool-Aid are indeed unquestioningly obediant.

So you think that your imagined issues with an iPhone equate to an incident involving nearly a thousand deaths?

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See, I don't think you understand that this is not Twitter or Facebook. So posting things just to be offensive is a) against the TOU, b) not a technical question or a request for help from fellow users, b) offensive.

Apple did what Apple did. We have no control over any of it, and it is also against the TOU for us to speculate about the what and the why.

So, maybe you could just stop being so insulting. I've not seen anything but insults posted by you in this thread, so if that is your sole purpose here, let us know so we can alert the hosts.

GB

Gail,

It is because the blinded apple supplicants were insulting and patronising to people who asked for help and kept repeating that apple we completely in the right.

Now apple have apologised and admitted there were wrong. but do we see an apology from the apple devotees? Of course not, they were proven wrong, as were you.

If apple can admit they were wrong, so should you guys.

gail from maine wrote:

See, I don't think you understand that this is not Twitter or Facebook. So posting things just to be offensive is a) against the TOU, b) not a technical question or a request for help from fellow users, b) offensive.

Apple did what Apple did. We have no control over any of it, and it is also against the TOU for us to speculate about the what and the why.

So, maybe you could just stop being so insulting. I've not seen anything but insults posted by you in this thread, so if that is your sole purpose here, let us know so we can alert the hosts.

Gail, don't even bother. When people see themselves as waging a righteous fight against an oppressor, there is no point in arguing with them. You have always been one of the kindest people here. Don't let them get to you.

(I may eventually even learn to take my own advice.)

Jay 75 wrote:

Gail,

It is because the blinded apple supplicants were insulting and patronising to people who asked for help and kept repeating that apple we completely in the right.

Now apple have apologised and admitted there were wrong. but do we see an apology from the apple devotees? Of course not, they were proven wrong, as were you.

If apple can admit they were wrong, so should you guys.

Where did Apple admit they were wrong? Cite your source.

Saying that it was never intended for users to encounter this issue is not the same thing as saying they were wrong. Apple is choosing to be tactful in their statement. They're choosing not to say, 'Okay, the only reason you encountered this is because you did something you were not supposed to do. But even so, we're going to fix it for you, even though there is no requirement for us to do so.'

Apple choosing not to argue with its customers is NOT the same thing as admission of any wrongdoing. That's a far stretch, and proposed only by someone with an axe to grind.