prismatics

rob53 said:

tht said:

Nice to see!

Just keep making incremental updates and options. Hopefully upgradeable SSDs will be available for all of the other Macs in the future.

They won't be unless Apple makes a total change in the enclosures. You can open a current MBP and iMac but the iMac is not that easy. We'll see if Apple goes back to an easy to open front or rear case for the iMacs but I don't see them changing from soldered RAM and SSD on some of the MacBooks or changing back to a screwed on case. Most CPUs are also soldered to keep the height of the motherboard as thin as possible. Adding a CPU socket doubles the height of the CPU.

additionally, Apple thinks nobody else except them is smart enough to replace an M.2 SSD or that SO-DIMM modules magically don't work except when they're designed by Apple themselves and 1:1 blueprinted onto the Mac Logic Board. But whatever, don't hope. I stopped "hoping" and started buying other Notebooks.

Imagine the Apple Stores not opening and you can't repair your shit

If the US thinks about freedom this way, why don't people have freedom to do what they want with their devices.

MplsP said:

So exactly what is apple doing? Tile and the article make several claims that Apple has systematically disabled tile products but never said how. 

We keep hearing about airtags but they’re still rumor-ware. Personally, I don’t think I’d use either AirTags or Tile, but I don’t think Apple should lock a competitor out, either. 

Certain APIs needed for Apps to communicate with the iPhone that are needlessly disabled without having an impact on privacy. Now, somehow it looks that Apple disables these APIs especially if Tile needs them, so that’s somewhat strange and worthy to be investigated. It would not serve the public discussion to list obscure function names and I don’t know these, but I have experienced myself what these changes cause and how companies depend on these APIs for their business to operate.

I read "moche" (or ugly in english words) every time

Scot1 said:

Maybe Apple needs to come up with an iOS that once hacked, puts a Trojan horse back into the hackers network

Whatever