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Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 days ago by fne8w2ah to c/technology

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[–] Khanzarate 5 points 6 days ago

I used to work as tech support and can say that there isn't.

For instance, in some Asian countries the shutter sound is legally mandated. Apple accomplished this by checking where you are. If the phone's region is one of those areas, It'll always make a shutter sound. If your region wasn't one of those areas, and the phone could still tell it was in the area (like a UK phone taken on vacation) It'll make the sound while it was there.

There's a bunch of ways to implement that, but the employee-facing article detailing this feature specified that a user who was from one of those countries but moved here could factory restore the phone to get it unregulated again.it had employees who were asked to do that to verify they weren't in the original country anymore as a "cover your ass" legal disclaimer kind of thing.

This was multiple iPhone generations ago, now, but I doubt they've changed. Economies of scale say having one process is easier.