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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: shutting down the non-official repair options
I'm still not seeing the conspiracy theory here.
Apple (and other) manufacturers already have the ability to shut down third party components and repairs. At least they did until countries started passing laws barring this.
Whether they use their own chips (which they have in their phones since day 1) or someone else's is immaterial.
Personally I'm surprised they waited this long to use their own chips. Intel, whom I love and respect, dropped the ball. Badly. Apple has always been a hardware company (besides their main business of consumer design) so this totally makes sense for them.
The backroom shenanigans won't be altered by this one bit. They will continue, as they have, and governments and consumers will fight, as they do, and we'll sit back with the popcorn.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm still not seeing the conspiracy theory here.
This is the only point I'd address. I would never accuse apple of a conspiracy and all of its clandestine implications.
They've always been "in yer face" about it.* I'll give them that.
* Well, yeah - they did slow down people's stuff to inspire them to upgrade.
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Exactly. No conspiracy. They're arrogant enough to show you exactly what they're doing. And telling you you're gonna like it.
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They've been working toward this for several years. I think about seven or eight years ago my former employers installed several systems at their fab in South San Jose, CA. Curiously, this site used to be a Fairchild fab that was condemned due to chemical storage leakage. The site was excavated quite far down and completely rebuilt over about ten years.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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So we should carefully wash any new macbooks we buy?
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I think enough dirt was removed from that site to have eliminated any possible concern. For that, anyway.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'm still going to wash it. With soap.
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Chris Maunder
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I have an IPad 1 and an MS Surface Go (version 1).
Never got anything to run on the IPad except a PDF reader (and Angry Birds); which required the "store" to access my own PDF's on my PC. Within 2 years, you couldn't update the OS anymore. Opera? LOL.
MS took their time, but did it right. My (baby) Surface can run VS2019. Out of S mode, it runs everything else. Paid less too. Oh, and I can build software to run on it without sacrificing my first born.
Apple makes me think of gold-plated bathroom fixtures. Oooooh, "desktop publishing" (80's).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I still have an iPad 1!
Worked great until I did a factory reset and lost all the apps. Still, I could easily just jailbreak the thing and I'm off to the races.
I like it for it's sentimental value.
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Chris Maunder
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Here's a brainstorm - don't buy their products!
Isn't caplitalism great!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: All they need to do is deviate a little from the essential standard observed by Intel and AMD
I thought their own chips were all going to be ARM-based? In which case, forget Intel and AMD, it'll all going to be incompatible by design.
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Some of us don't give a rats arse what Apple do as we don't own/use their stuff!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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German court says techno is music: [^].
The following content is a rendering of certain thoughts and emotions in the rather, at present, frazzled mind of a nominally human meat package with 1001 lunar cycles on it/him, perhaps well past its/his use-by date. If it doesn't entertain you ... it/he has failed (again).
Admittedly, his/its sense of humor tends toward a darker palette, and sharper ... rather than blunt. In such dark times as these, particularly for those former flaming youth who got their (swelled) heads busted for what they (naively) thought were good causes in the halcyon '60's, could immersion in such chthonic waters prove more of a homeopathic remedy, rather than a Lethean anodyne?
 Clearly another sign of the impending, foreordained, disintegration of culture as the "End of Days" approaches to finish the job of wiping that destructive top-predator parasite, Homo Sap, off the face of the earth they have so fiendishly mutilated.
 Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Rap, Hip-Hop, Techno: all the cacophony of the apocalypse to come as Shiva warms up to do the Tandava. I would not be surprised to know he has already incarnated in the human named Greta Thunberg, or, the Martian wanna-be, Elon Musk.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 11-Nov-20 9:45am.
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For some, Bill, that comes pretty damn close to trolling ... 
And all of them are better than some I could mention: We got both kinds - YouTube[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"trolling" ... Is there no place for satire here ? Must we rant only about trivia ? 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I thought your post was entertaining but wasn't sure if it was satirical, because some people could have written it without satirical intent. The Joke button or a laughter emoji would have dispelled any doubt.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Greg Quote: Satire, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are 'endowed by their Creator' with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a sour-spirited knave, and his every victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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What have you done to your post?!
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Greg, I just took your suggestion to flavor with emoji as a good idea; I think the wink emoji has a lot less msg in it 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That's why I put the on the end...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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BillWoodruff wrote: Clearly another sign of the impending, foreordained, disintegration of culture
Or an expansion of culture!
BillWoodruff wrote: Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Rap, Hip-Hop, Techno
Those are cultural DLC's!
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad.
Although some people have difficulties wrapping their head around that idea
Personally, I can enjoy Bach or Beethoven as well as Slayer, Wu-Tang Clan and Deadmau5.
Although I can imagine that's a bit much to take in for the ehhh... "Culturally impaired" among us
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Sander Rossel wrote: Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad.
Exactly.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad.
Exactly! It is only different... and one should learn to live with the different...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Sure - I see the good in it! It's enabling!
For those who are both tone-deaf and totally talentless, they can now still become musicians!
Just by a drum-synthesizer, fire it up and burn an album! Maybe two!.
People who call out that shyte for the shyte it is - just spoil sports!
P.S.: this notion will be expanded to restaurants, medical care, and automotive repair. Everyone deserves to be what they want to be - if if they're absolutely inept; not supporting this concept is sheer snobbery.
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