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> or perhaps they were afraid some bug could end up having catastrophic consequences of locking a billion people out of their phones with no way to fix it?

That basically happened (at a smaller scale) just last week. When Apple apologized and fixed the "can't use iPhone if it's been repaired by a 3rd party" thing, the fix required updating phones which were otherwise bricked. It's not an unreasonable scenario.




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