Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on MacBook Pro
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Apple is the sort of company that would prefer if you rented their products indefinitely for a small fee of $3000.
Hah, I was wondering if he'd get brought up. Can't wait to see his rant video about it once they put the fire out in his building and he can get back into his office.
who?
He also just had an office fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jn2-8YvE0E
Modern businesses don't tell you that you own something, only "buy a license to use it"
I mean that means nothing if law doesn't allow it, which is why we should work towards making such things not allowed in the countries that it's still allowed.
yes reliability like deprecating features developed for compatibility like vulkan, opengl, etc, intentionally throttling phones, bendgate, irreplacable minor parts, nonexpandable storage and oh lets not forget the whole antenna debacle
At this point this is nothing new, their walled garden is just there to further lock you in, make them money at every corner and push out all competition,
if you buy into their ecosystem you should honestly see it coming, this has been going on for years.
Apple isn't something unique and marvellous like they used to be, I admit their software and hardware packages are finely tuned and their ecosystems security is pretty top notch,
but the price you pay is a pretty heavy markup for what you can also achieve with other market-solutions and a little more time investment,
instead of bowing down to become a slave to Apple's policies, politics and market decisions.
None of this has to do with reliability of macOS—I guess you could bring OpenGL into this, but you’re saying that as if Microsoft isn’t trying to deprecate OpenGL as well in favor of DirectX; nobody seems to care tho’
I’m not even defending Apple here, but making a point about how their bs is put on a pedestal.
I highly doubt something like this would prevent something like that.
Tbh servers you right for buying it and knowing they do stuff like this.
Not really. And for the record the last time I bought an apple product for myself was in 2012, macbook pro.
Phones I just lease.
meanwhile, ifixit confirms you can still repair your computer with third party parts.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/05/macbook-pro-imac-pro-repair-t2/
https://youtu.be/vA_em-0VYWY
what a fucking waste of time all that engineering was to put that t2 chip in then.
I know this wont affect 90% of the people who buy apple stuff, because they buy the new one every year.
What I am worried about is the precedent it sets. Everyone follows fucking apple, always. If they do this and get away with it, I'm sure we will be seeing more shit with a ~security chip~
Also, If I bought something for fucking retail price, it's mine. I can fucking hack it up, destroy it, fix it, piss on it, whatever i fucking want because it is my product after buying it. Anti-consumerist shit like this is fucking cancer and eventually will lead to "long term leases" on products.
Secure hardware is no doubt something we should strive for. The security issues riddled through Intel’s processors proved that. But it shouldn’t mean locking out repair and device longevity.
What if it turned out this is actually the Chinese spy chip everyone was so worried about and Apple sold it as an anti-consumer chip to protect their relationship with Foxconn
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