In article , harry newton
wrote:

That's why connectivity broke with Linux when iOS users upgraded iOS from
something as minor as iOS 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 (ask me how I know).

no, that's not why.

connectivity broke because the driver was *not* written by apple, but
instead written by a third party, who didn't do a very good job and was
unable to test with an unreleased product, as is common with linux.