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

That's a fascinating way to defend lack of personal responsibility.

So if i`ve change my 5S display, kept my touch id(working condition) i should be in the clear right?Iphones are not made for consumers.

The update to brick phone was released recently. The policy decision to brick phones was taken recently and was included in a recent update.

'The Apple iOS 9 software update which it launched last autumn will, in the jargon, “brick” the handset '

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/08/apple-under-pressure-lawyers-err or-53-codes

This was a cynical decision in an attempt to increase iphone sale at a time when they were leveling off.

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The policy has not changed. Please live up to your personal responsibility.

Apple has made a Microsoft Xbox One disaster, here.

bobfromlosangeles wrote:

I will however, drink a glass of my own Kool-Aid.

Bob, some of us are old enough to remember the real meaning of "drink the Kool-Aid". I, for one, am truly offended by using this glib phrase, which originally referred to the mass murder-suicide of over 900 people (including 300 children) by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

Lawrence Finch wrote:

bobfromlosangeles wrote:

I will however, drink a glass of my own Kool-Aid.

Bob, some of us are old enough to remember the real meaning of "drink the Kool-Aid". I, for one, am truly offended by using this glib phrase, which originally referred to the mass murder-suicide of over 900 people (including 300 children) by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

Thank you, Larry. It always pains me to hear people trivializing the deaths of so many people who really just wanted a better life.

The policy to brick the phones is obviously new, if Apple had been bricking phones since release it would be common knowledge.

Your claim that the policy of bricking phones is old.

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Jay 75 wrote:

Your claim that the policy of bricking phones is old is an obvious and demonstrable lie.

Where, exactly, did I make that claim?

Apologies Philly_Phan did. I should have replied to his.

That's the third time that you've called me a liar. Fascinating allegations coming from the Grand Exalted Clueless One.

Have a nice day!

Apple's policies have not changed. You would realize that if you were not so extremely clueless.

Have a nice day!

I'd like to add my gratitude. This analogies are very upsetting and have no place here.

bobfromlosangeles wrote:

These folks will never see your position as reasonable, just as we will not see theirs as compassionate. A free-thinking person might say something like "I probably wouldn't have done it this way, but we are just the sycophants here, we don't drive the bus, we just cheer it on." Instead, you get this almost religious mantra about who is not following the rules and why you should not expect a corporation which could be reasonable, to actually be reasonable. It's a lost cause. And my final words because they do have one point: this is not the place for this. People will vote with their wallets.

Because this forum is not for compassion.

Once again: Technical Support Forum, not Emotional Support Forum.

bobfromlosangeles wrote:

Interesting reply to the technical points raised. Quite revealing.

I'd already addressed the few technical points in your reply that I quoted in the comment of mine that you've referenced. Feel free to read my posts again.