Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
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Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
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#2Well, Apple lost its soul years ago.
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#3Lol was already resigned to this being my last mbp (customer for at least 15 years)... This is pure icing .. .
Re: Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
#4Well, Apple lost its soul years ago.
Corporations don't have souls.
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#5I never understood Apple with this. They fight hard to make long lasting devices (iOS 12 can be installed all the way back on the 5s IIRC), but then fight back against repairability
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#6This is a shame and another setback for Macbooks / Macs. I'd agree with "planned obselescense" over security being the motive as the article pointed out. This will also not hurt Apple in the slightest, only their consumers who are blinded by their unwavering loyalty to the brand.
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#7I never understood Apple with this. They fight hard to make long lasting devices (iOS 12 can be installed all the way back on the 5s IIRC), but then fight back against repairability
I presume there is good margin in official repairs. Just like there is speccing extra memory on a machine you buy, that can be bought for a quarter of the price from Crucial or Amazon for equally high speed and quality.
They have clearly set their direction of travel, so I hold out no hope of ever owning another Cheese Grater with similar attention to detail of how upgrades are enabled.
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#8This is an excellent step for protecting MacBook Pro users against hardware invasions (such as US and China border authorities). If you trust the user to replace hardware, you permit the user’s hardware to be altered by malicious actors. By restricting final approval of hardware replacement to a vetted subset of all humanity, you ensure that it’s vastly more difficult for the vast majority of malicious humanity.
Yes, in a theoretical world, you could set up your own crypto authority and sign your own device repairs, assuming Apple were to build support for this. But if you brick your CA you’d brick your laptop if it ever needed repairs someday, which would leave you thousands of dollars poorer and in need of a laptop.
I trust Apple to run this CA and gate access to it _far_ more than I trust my personal self to do so. This security improvement will make me safer, as well as my non-engineer coworkers, and my mom.
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#9The iMac Pro is similarly locked down. All while Apple fights against Right To Repair legislation.
Re: Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
#10This is an excellent step for protecting MacBook Pro users against hardware invasions (such as US and China border authorities). If you trust the user to replace hardware, you permit the user’s hardware to be altered by malicious actors. By restricting final approval of hardware replacement to a vetted subset of all humanity, you ensure that it’s vastly more difficult for the vast majority of malicious humanity. Yes,…
I highly doubt that’s Apple’s reason considering they didn’t give a comment when asked for one