John Gruber blogging about the weird iPhone 18 Pro Max + AT&T bug:

I’d love to understand how a software update can prevent existing devices from being affected, but a software update cannot restore service to existing devices that have already been affected.

Me too. And it says something about Apple quality control that nothing like this has ever really happened in the history of the iPhone that I can remember. Antennagate was overblown compared to actually bricked cell service.