If you want to reduce ewaste, don’t let people touch the insides of things.
Apple has a variety of reasons I am sure. I doubt it is inherently driven by profit, but the stars align so it works well.
There’s a very clear security reason for it, but for whatever reason nobody really wants to talk about how much machines are targeted by governments all over the world.
Apple Configurator requirements, from my perspective, is one of Apple’s answers to intelligence agencies intercepting shipments to install hardware exploits.
NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware
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This is apple’s approach to making it harder for things like the TAO division of the NSA to do what they do.
The NSA Uses Powerful Toolbox in Effort to Spy on Global Networks
The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.www.spiegel.de
Cisco CEO warns Obama NSA 'load stations' threaten the entire tech industry
Cisco's John Chambers has told Obama why the NSA's national security efforts may do more harm than good.www.zdnet.com
Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant
Servers, routers get “beacons” implanted at secret locations by NSA’s TAO team.arstechnica.com
My 3 Apple laptops (one Pro, now onto my second Air) never died - I just got bored of them and wanted to upgrade. Speed wise I didn’t have an issue with them either.
That's my logic, I purchase the minimum spec I need for the task at hand and replace/repurpose the older system. Especially with Apple as the base models tend to offer fair value, while the upgrades are clearly priced egregiously...
See, him saying good for customer, “conflict of interest”, him not defending Customer, “he should know more than this. Why he doesn’t spearhead the whole process”. He just can’t win regardless, so he picked his side and moved on.New account created JUST to post this YouTube video? Hmmmm…
Searching the name brought up this.
“https://rossmanngroup.com/”
I would actually EXPECT that someone who makes money via repairs would prefer that companies make their systems more repairable. Rather than, you know, see that the business is trending down and get into another line of business.
Not a conflict of interest AT ALL.
Unless you run what I call “real-time backup”, meaning every single I/O operation performed by the machine is backed up exactly to a replica, exactly when it happens, there will always be a gap between current data and yesterday‘s backup. What happens if your critical data falls into that gap?
So I guess you have a live backup system that replicates every thing your machine is doing, with only a few seconds of delay. If something bad happens, you would only have a couple second to lose, not hours if not days.
Time Machine really isnt the best backup system out there imo (very difficult to expand capacity without losing previous backup is one of them), but that’s a separate issue.
Nobody knows if Apple is using TLC or QLC for their NAND flash. The more bits a cell would store the quicker SSD die during daily use. Especially QLC‘s write speed can be as slow as mechanical hard drive if SLC cache is filled (though daily use this should never happen). 10,000 writes can go away faster than most people realise.
Again, there will always be a time gap between disaster and last backup. Unless the backup happens in real-time (meaning at most a couple seconds of delay), it is infinitely better to have a way to save data when disaster happens, so the loss can be minimised. Apple has effectively shuts down that data recovery chance.
You better buy a few backup cars, for the next time when somebody cut in your tires.
My Mac cost four figures, my data >six figures. While I dont overly care for the lack of modularity I do firmly approve of the increased security. Most cloud solutions worth their salt backup in real-time, have versioning and p2p encryption or they would be useless for any professional purpose.
No, you carry backup replacement TIRES, not cars...and a weapon to smack the people who cut your tires. How this relates to computers is simple, the car is the computer, the replacement TIRES are replacement parts like ssd, ram, and the weapon is sending a message to the Manufacturer that you're still rocking one of their 15 year old computers perfectly fine, and bypassed their planned obsolescence😂
Yep, that’s Apple finest green washing.
Apple Car will have weld tires, better buy three Apple Cars(Winter, Summer, and an AllSeasons backup). You will have to decide upfront if you want to drive during the Winter or Summer and buy corresponding the Apple Car with weld tires. 🤣
Just wait for the Apple House, with a non-removable backyard and pool, better buy three🤣
And here:
Never been easier to backup important date, those that dont have no room to complain in the event of HW failure. Is rare and price does not exclude such events. If this system was to go down now, I'd simply resume on another that mirrors it both on macOS & Windows...
Ya…….Apple only guarantees anything to last a year….3 if you pay more for the guarantee. Beyond that they hope it dies so they can sell you a new Mac. When they pick the SSD vendor they sort by “price low to high” just like you do.
