IPhone 4S is a brick after trying to update yesterday

My phone was almost out of juice yesterday afternoon and I did not have my AC Charger. I plugged it into the USB port on my PC and continued to try and work and Itunes popped up saying there was an update available etc. Updated it to the iOS 7 when it first came out but figured Ok Microsoft's updates all of the time so why not. followed the prompts to back up to iCloud, went through all of the ridiculous updating infomration, Credit Card on file etc. But when it was done my phone was stuck in RESTORE mode. I have tried every button pushing fix on the web. This is so frustrating. My phone worked perfect until IAPPLE/ITUNES got a hold of it. Never had a Microsoft's update ruin my entire computer.
I took it to the local tech center today and they told me I was just f'd and offered to sell me a new phone or charge me $200 for a warranty replacement. Said that all of the water thingies or whatever were tripped or something like that. 3 months ago someone spilt their coffee on the table and it got slightly wet. It did go out for a few hours but has been up and running perfectly, absolutely perfectly for over 3 months now. That is until I plugged it into the dang ITUNES thing. I am NOT going to pay for a new iPhone. Apple jacked it up, Apple needs to fix it. It is obvious that this is happening everywhere to all types of phones, iPads etc. It is all over the web.
Does anyone have any solutions here?????????????????

AnjieAllen, shrug off the critic. As you said, you are not alone with this problem and I doubt it was caused by delayed damge from the coffee spill. As a matter of fact, the software update ruined my iphone 4s and after spending two days trying to fix it, including a trip to the Apple Store, searching for online tricks, and contacting Apple support, I gave up and bought a brand new iphone 5s. When I set it up the new iPhone and updated to the latest software, thinking what are the chances this would happen again to my brand new iphone. Well, it did!
So now I have two iphones stuck in recovery mode and nothing works to get them out of recovery mode. I have spent two and a half hours this afternoon online chatting with Apple support and they can not figure it out either. The fact is, Apple released software that has rendered their products useless and likely resulted in the loss of priceless data belonging to their customers. I hope we see an acknowledgement from Apple about this problem and what they intend to do to compensate and/or assist customers.

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