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- Advance encryption in iCloud/iPhone its something not present in other products and services currently.
- FindMy network to find lost keys and iphone
- Private relay for more private browsing
- AirDrop for fast file transfer
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> Storage is the most likely component to fail. Got any sources for that? I find that hard to believe. > MST (DisplayPort daisy chaining) in MacOS. The hardware has supported it for over a decade. The OS is the weak link here. This is indeed annoying, but with USB4/Thunderbolt support becoming more common in monitors, I believe this is going to be less of an issue going forward.
SSDs and batteries are the only components (as far as I remember) that have a "guaranteed" cycle lifetime. Or in another words, a "very likely after this point" failure threshold.
With typical usage, it should hopefully be out many more years than the laptop gets security updates.
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I used to feel like you - the non-removable battery thing was annoying, the non-modular flash was a deal breaker, etc. None of them turned out to matter, at all. What does matter is a solid feel and solid construction and the flash and batteries lasting the lifetime of the product. I'd rather have that than replaceable.
But the batteries dont last the lifetime of the product. Most iPhones are still very useful devices by the time their batteries have deteriorated below 70% original capacity.
The devices start glitching and/or won't run newer apps as well as they should long before the battery goes on them
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Apple devices aren't engineered to last; they're engineered to be manufactured, sell new, and sometimes sell expensive repairs by them. Also, NVIDIA cards in eGPUs and Thunderbolt (arm64) aren't supported. The best solution is either don't use Apple, or have a machine under warranty and very good backups. Complaints aside, the Anker 777 dock does 5K-8K DP over USB-C, 1 GbE, 100w charging, 4 USB-A and more and works w…
Can you explain why Apple devices in general maintain a higher percentage of their resale value for longer than their competitors’ counterparts?
It’s not that hard to find a high-end/$2000+ PC laptop for 40% or so off 1-2 years after its release, not so much a macbook. Apple is still selling refurbished M1 airs for $849.00 from 2020 ($999 was the price on introduction)
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SSDs and batteries are the only components (as far as I remember) that have a "guaranteed" cycle lifetime. Or in another words, a "very likely after this point" failure threshold.
I completely agree on batteries (and I believe this is in fact why most devices are being replaced was what I was getting at!), but where is that point practically for SSDs? With typical usage, it should hopefully be out many more years than the laptop gets security updates.
Well, that's a good question, isn't it? Especially when you're selling memory-limited hardware and shoving the swap in your SSD
(And using it past the availability of security updates should be the user's prerogative, not Apple - you can run Linux on the ARM laptops)
Nintendo died by hiding in the corner, being afraid to compete, not making anything cool, and instead making something nobody wanted in a category too small to sustain itself.
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More so when the RAM remains limited on Macs as it too is integrated with the CPU and hence is non-upgradable. This is even worse than soldered SSD, as we can still make an attempt to replace the SSD chips with new ones with careful soldering, but nothing can be done about the RAM. These deliberately irreparable new Macs are just shitty products.
You know you can buy other products, right? There’re plenty of computer manufacturers that use discrete modules.
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Data point of one. Last 20 years storage has not failed on me across close to a dozen laptops I’ve owned across various brands. So even I get puzzled whenever I see “storage is the most likely component to fail”. Maybe I just got lucky?
If you're replacing your laptop every 1.5 years then you're probably not likely to encounter any part failing.
The future is batteries with more charge cycles, not replaceable batteries. The solid state battery people are claiming 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. If they can achieve that, it's 27 years of battery life. The case will wear out first.
Actually, if the EU gets its way, a future with mandatory removable batteries might be the only possible future. And I'm so looking forward for it. Next up should be mandatory recycling of batteries by the manufacturers.
10k cycles (~27y) sounds absurdly good - I think 80% of original capacity by 10y would be more than adequate. Basically you never need to replace the battery throughout the useful life time of a device.