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Fidonet127 said:

GeorgeBMac said:

For all those defending the "Everything Glued together & soldered together" assembly of the MacBooks by saying "Nobody ever upgraded a computer", Andrew just called bull!

His biggest (only?) complaint about his M1 MacBook Air is that it can't meet his needs because it is frozen in time with what it came with when he bought it -- versus his MacPro which grew and developed with enhancements as his needs, wants and requirements grew.

Likewise, my 9 year old i7 Thinkpad runs perfectly well and meets all of my needs -- because it's been upgraded to a 500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram and an internal harddrive used for ongoing, real time backups.  Without those cheap and very simple to install (5 minutes or less) upgrades the machine would have been scrap

For every point, there is a vast majority of people who never upgrade the internals of their computers. You can rally and complain about that all you want, however there are millions of computers including Apple that haven’t been upgrade for years. Our 2014 Air and Mini are some of those. Apple is selling more ASi Macs than Intel Macs and every one of them are all soldered together. Apple knows their market. Rather than scrapping them, Macs do have a high resale value. 

I doubt whether knowing the market is the key issue. I think the limiting factor is robotics (and by implication practical limits on headcount). Another is the resulting reliability. 

tnet-primary said:

There is literally no reason for this to be an article on AI.  Because he used the term “iCloud” in his argument?   And the last three paragraphs of the article - general commentary on Apple’s work with government requests - have been covered, ad nauseam, in other pieces.  

Stay out of politics, please.

Politics is imbued everywhere.

When someone says stay out of politics it means they don't like your political choice. 

Apple's customer base is far less price conscious than most people. The pandemic caused major losses of life and income, housing and food security. Most Apple customers we not so effected. 

This is the nature of an economy divided into Haves and Have Nots. 

How are these devices supposed to work?  

Assuming you don't own an iPhone, is the iPhone supposed to come without apps software installed? No email, no browser, no maps, no Apple watch, FaceTime, no clock, no FindMy, no calendar, no contacts, Health apps, exercise apps, ...?

If you're upgrading to a new iPhone, I suppose you'll still be able to reinstall from backup. 

Frankly, I've never had an issue with being locked in by Apple's default apps. It simply means have got a reasonably functioning ecosystem from the beginning and these products became more useful, and my expertise increased, I was able to configure my devices as I wished. 

Certainly, Apple competitors are at a disadvantage in they have to do something special to become your alternative. 

But, most of us realize Apple's apps are not the best in class, however one might define that. For me, my needs almost never require best in class. 

Okay. The Do Not Track option appears on my iPhone and iPads. 

But, I see nothing similar on my MacOS devices. Am I missing something or is privacy control non-existent on our desktops and laptop?