Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on MacBook Pro - Sensationalist Headlines

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58146/4b7b28f8-9885-47b7-a0e5-74a9e351bf42/image.png Apple has introduced software locks that will effectively prevent independent and third-party repair on 2018 MacBook Pro computers, according to internal Apple documents obtained by Motherboard. The new system will render the computer “inoperative” unless a proprietary Apple “system configuration” software is run after parts of the system are replaced. According to the document, which was distributed to Apple’s Authorized Service Providers late last month, this policy will apply to all Apple computers with the “T2” security chip, which is present in 2018 MacBook Pros as well as the iMac Pro. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair When is shit like this going to be declared illegal?

I'm sure they've been bitten by doing this before. They had that thing with third party iPhone chargers causing it to say "hey you're not using one of our Apple ™ brand Apple Juice™ chargers™ " and got told off for it.

I love apple products but shit like this sucks so bad. If someone bought your product, they shouldn't be forced to have it serviced or modified by your company when there are alternatives available. Brand "integrity" isn't tarnished when someone outside your brand works on your stuff post-purchase.

This will be great 5-7 years down the line when you need one repaired and it will be impossible.

Apple doesn't want you to repair your property, they want you to buy a newer, shinier, and more expensive laptop to replace it.

[Rossman stares blankly into the camera once more]

Right to repair affects everyone both rural and urban with shit like proprietary software on farm vehicles. I suspect like net neutrality it's something everyone wants but corporate sociopaths and their paid politicians.

This is just going to speed up right to repair legislation. at least I hope so...

I guess thats expected with Apple drones that need the new iPhone every year.

If this doesn't break a couple EU laws I'd be surprised.

You keep buying, they'll keep sticking it in you. Pretty simple.

Even if you pay for it you should be able to repair it. I don't think it does because it's a "configurator tool" how this "tool" configures a screen through the ribbon is beyond me.

Why would you keep it for so long? Buy a new model every 1-2years! /s Apples obsession with killing 3rd party repairs is astounding.

In a fair, sane, world of course you would. In the current zeitgeist your choices are yes and no, and no is the right answer.

Tbh buying an apple product at this point is a fools errand They openly build planned obsolescence into their devices and even remove important shit for absolutely no reason

How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple I really love right to repair but at the same time things like this ruins it... They should do repairs for free.

I would say that people should just not buy Apple products but apparently they are of such quality that abandoning anti-anti-consumerist corporations is too much to ask from the drones

the long saga of louis rossman vs apple continues

Here's hoping said software is leaked.

The new macbooks fucking suck. all USB-C ports, the trackpad is way too fucking big, and the touchbar is useless at best and annoying at worst.

Hopefully the software gets leaked

Used to jokingly ridicule people I knew for buying apple by exaggerating the flaws in it but these days you just cannot make this shit sound worse than it really is.

I always give my co-worker a hard time with all of the dongles hanging off the side its honestly pretty with the price that it is. Theirs a lot of ultrabooks that are just better or cheaper with a Hackintosh setup anyway, their hardware isn't special anymore.

The Australian Consumer Law is going to tear this apart harder than they did to Steam.

My company provides a macbook for everyone: developers, marketing, sales etc. We do all of our development on MacOS using IntelliJ, build with Maven, but then to actually run our code we deploy it to tomcat on a Linux VM. It would make more sense to me to just get some PCs and load Ubuntu onto them to cut out the middle man but our CEO wants everyone to be on the same machine. Apparently the lady who does payroll needed a PC for a lot of the payroll software, and the CEO himself picked out an HP Laptop that resembled the aluminum Macbooks so that everybody had, more or less, the same laptop. I hate the tech stack at my company

Because of the operating system—I mean, there is literally a thread about a Windows update wiping data right there. All platforms are shit. But that takes away the whole point of macOS, which is reliability. Either you put up with Apple or you put up with Microsoft, unless you put up with Linux.

Software development is where linux excels (and on servers, since linux runs most of the public web), so yeah, using macos doesn't make much sense (at least the same tools are available nativelly)

this has nothing to do with right to repair, those chips were inserted into the factories in the original supply chain with no repairs at any step. free repairs would likely be unsustainable for most businesses. I say most because apple's profit margins are huge because of how overpriced everything is, either way, not a real solution.

There's another Ross who won't be happy about something dying because of copy-protect garbage. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/229956/9499a2d8-2de0-44f4-bbb4-3689eeab87a7/1500078210618.png All around me are familiar faces....

"Hey, I see you bought one of our products. You're not allowed to do whatever you want with it even though you own it." I will never understand this logic.