IPhone died while updating?

I Updated my iPhone 3 awhile back.. Not iOS 7 but b4 that. After letting me go through the whole thing.. It totally died. After talking to iTunes support and stores around the city I finally got an honest answer from a guy from the Source. He said Apple let's you update on purpose so it WILL died therefore needing to go out and buy a new phone. This was only kept so my son could use it for games after I got my new phone. Is this true??

I ended up taking my phone to the Apple store. He plugged my phone into his computer and it restored right away. He said if I would have tried a different computer it would have worked for me at home.

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