&gt; Before update to iOS 9, the affected phones functioned normally, but with disabled Touch ID.<p>This is irrelevant.  The problem is that those affected phones could still have had compromised fingerprint sensors.<p>Apple did the right thing in protecting people from this, but did communicate about it poorly.<p>The only malice in this situation is on the part of the people accusing apple of being motivated by &#x27;revenge&#x27;.