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You're missing my point.

If a warning light on my car's dash turns on, I might look for a fix online. But if someone in a forum suggests I drive my troubled car off a cliff, I'm not going to write an angry rant accusing Ford of making me drive my car off a cliff.

I'm also not going to navigate to some amateurish-looking website that's obviously not affiliated with Ford, and claim that I can't tell it apart from Ford's website (and imply that Ford is somehow responsible for my confusion).

And if I can't fix it myself, I'll bring the car in for servicing, rather than writing a linkbait article speculating about what the repairman might tell me. (In fact, if the phone is a year old and it has a legitimate issue, Apple might just hand him a new phone... I find that scenario more in line with my own experiences, but we'll never know, since he couldn't be bothered).

> Unfortunately, beyond jailbreaking it there was no other worthwhile solution.

Really? Because he listed a bunch that all seemed more worthwhile.



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