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Disturbing lack of DRM. It should only be possible to polish apple devices with it. And, of course, any other polishing cloth should render these devices inoperable.

What if I told you that Apple had offered DRM free music for some 12 years now?

Music is not an Apple product, maybe they don't really care.

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Do the keyboards on the current MacBook generation still make a mark on the screen over time (which implies this will happen with the new ones too)? If so which way to protect the screen is recommended? A screen protector or a cloth to cover the keyboard area?

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I've always wondered why Apple doesn't make those, and some cleaning spray too: the screens they make are really sensitive, and expensive, and I bet people often leave unexpected marks on them by trying to clean up

I take it you haven't heard about Apple's long-standing problem with anti-reflective coatings flaking off their macbook screens.

Just yet another defect they won't admit to publicly or do a recall over. You have to find out about the secret recall, before it's discontinued...

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https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/10/18/apple-polishing-clo... > Apple also has a list of the devices that are compatible with this Polishing Cloth. For the iPhone lineup it goes back as far as the first-generation iPhone SE and the iPhone 6. The first-generation iPad mini is supported, and you can go back as far as 2015 for some iMac models. You can clean every model of the Apple Watch, and if you have any iPod tou…

Darn, the 5s got an iOS 12 patch along with the 6 just a few weeks ago, but it doesn't look like it included compatibility.

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I've always wondered why Apple doesn't make those, and some cleaning spray too: the screens they make are really sensitive, and expensive, and I bet people often leave unexpected marks on them by trying to clean up

The original iPhone came with a black, screen-sized microfiber cloth.

Pretty sure my MacBook pro from 2009 did as well.

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Do the keyboards on the current MacBook generation still make a mark on the screen over time (which implies this will happen with the new ones too)? If so which way to protect the screen is recommended? A screen protector or a cloth to cover the keyboard area?

At least my 16" does. The recommended way to protect the screen is to keep the laptop on a pedestal in a gallery, wholly untouched like Jony Ive intended.
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