theguardian.com/money/2016/f … rty-repair
Where’s it all gonna end? 
Edit Fri 19th.
Here, Apparently: theguardian.com/technology/2 … ed-iphones
Back to tablets of stone, perhaps, eh Vic?
Mr X
In an Apple store? 
How…lovely.
I don’t doubt that android/google/etc would get away with something similar if they could. I have to wonder how much of these sorts of bugs are actually bugs or “features.”
Apple have already cornered the market in stone quarries, mate.
Apparently, Apple’s line on this is that as the home button is linked to the fingerprint recognition and validation code, an unscrupulous third-party repairer could get hold of the data or disable the fingerprint recognition, thereby destroying the security given by the system. So it’s a feature.
I can see where they’re coming from on that. While it might seem unlikely here, the fact is that, in many parts of the world, it is not so remote a possibility. One of Apple’s biggest iPhone markets has been China, and given the level of counterfeiting and other similarly malignant practices that go on there on a regular basis …
Do Android and Google phones have fingerprint recognition built in in a similar way?
Mr X
In the Guardian piece Vic cites above, Apple Pay is mentioned. I suspect the security of that may also be involved.