David Hanak During yesterday, an unflattering piece of news appeared on the web regarding Apple and the new Macs, or MacBooks. A leaked internal document revealed that Apple has implemented a special software mechanism in the latest MacBook Pros and iMac Pros that makes it virtually impossible to repair these devices outside of the company's official service centers - which in these cases do not even include certified service centers.
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The core of the whole problem is a kind of software lock that starts when the system recognizes a service intervention in the device. This lock, which renders the locked device essentially unusable, can only be unlocked with the help of a special diagnostic tool available only to Apple service technicians at individual Apple stores.
In this way, Apple essentially beats out all other service centers, whether they are certified workplaces or other options for repairing these products. According to the leaked document, this new procedure applies to devices that have an integrated T2 chip. The latter provides security in these products and it is precisely for this reason that the device needs to be unlocked with a special diagnostic tool available only to Apple.
Locking of the system occurs even after relatively banal service operations. According to the leaked document, the system "locks" after any service intervention that concerns the MacBook Pro display, as well as interventions on the motherboard, the upper part of the chassis (keyboard, Touch Bar, touchpad, speakers, etc.) and Touch ID. In the case of iMac Pros, the system locks up after hitting the motherboard or flash storage. Special "Apple Service Toolkit 2" is required for unlocking.
With this step, Apple essentially prevents any interference with its computers. Due to the trend of installing dedicated security chips, we can expect to gradually see a similar design in all computers that Apple will offer. This step has caused huge controversy, especially in the US, where there is currently a fierce fight for the "right to repair", where users and independent service centers are on one side, and Apple and other companies, who would like an absolute monopoly on repairing their devices, are on the other. . How do you see this move by Apple?
Source: Motherboard
How do I look at it? Don't buy it. When someone pulls a laptop under the covers like mine, it needs to be deflated sometimes - even that will be a problem now. So for me - thank you, I don't want to ask elsewhere.
I would like Apple to be fined by the EU, something in the tens of billions of euros.
Why don't they let every kid in the mall dig into their products with a screwdriver?
ok, then they can offer you -like me last year- to trade in a used iPhone 7 256GB for a new one for a ridiculous 10k...if I disassembled it earlier or used an unauthorized service, I'm out of luck. they're just looking after their own. if someone needs disassembly, they'd better look elsewhere...
Well, the main thing is that our apple phones are sent to britex, I wouldn't even put a vacuum cleaner there, let alone a phone, and if someone from britex has a problem, feel free to write and I'll put photos of how it came to me after the repair. phone board.
Nonsense, given that the EU legislation is planning the exact opposite, specifically the obligation of manufacturers to enable service interventions for basically anyone (in addition without special equipment, I'm not kidding, there really is such strength), this otherwise excellent idea will not stand a chance. (Or it will help everyone else) Skoda, caused by unauthorized services, is only huge for mobile phones.
The lock makes sense if it protects the user's privacy from interference with FaceID, touch ID, phone memory, and this is how apple will probably defend it. They went a bit overboard with limiting other service terminations.
only an idiot would buy that
I think that even if Apple sent it in a garbage box and you couldn't even turn it on, there would always be some idiot who would buy it.
It should be noted that the vast majority of this company's customers are lower-middle-class people who have a need to prove to themselves that they are something more. So they buy an overpriced shop, mostly in installments, and they need to show it to everyone.
I have many acquaintances with well above average incomes who could buy a new Apple cell phone and laptop every month and yet I have never seen a single one of them with an Apple. If a person is successful, he is probably intelligent. Well, an intelligent person will not buy a product from a company when he can have the same (sometimes even better) product from a competitor for a half price.
Because of this, I know several people who are not doing very well financially (they have low incomes, debts, mortgages...) and they play with Apple every moment.
So everyone think about yourselves…
Another pointless post, by another terribly smart professional who of course knows what he's talking about?. Hope you're feeling better now that you've let off some steam and now on to the topic.
^^^ it is necessary to realize that a private opinion based on a self-firm belief "that it is definitely so" has no factual value higher than anything else that can be sucked out of the finger.
I'm always amused when some mental poor person comes to a purely "apple" website to talk about others, how he is on top of things and doesn't have to prove anything, and the others are poor people who improve their social status with an expensive brand.
So we have two options, either you belong to the group that is proving something to themselves by doing this - and then you are probably very annoyed at how it ruins you financially or you are not up to it at all and it gets on your nerves even more.
Because I can't imagine why a person who is so fiercely intelligent and doesn't need expensive toys would go to a website about apple and make a similar rant there to show what a fighter he is and everyone else is a sock :)
:-) You're making it up. Where do you get your "numbers"? What are most customers like? Source please. Don't you think most of the customers you know? .-) FYI, Apple computers have ALWAYS been the domain of professionals, and that's because they simply didn't have to keep restarting when the system crashed (which it doesn't even now). Read something about it. Also, talk about overpriced Apple is no longer true. Prices have leveled off a lot due to the switch to the Intel platform, which as you may know is already some Friday. It is hard to say that you can have the same thing from a competitor, where did you get it? In a train? The view from it to the Apple store? The problem with competing products is that they have Windows that are not equipped in the basic installation, they work as they please and are controlled slightly differently with each update. The stability of Mac OS and Win really cannot be compared, but that requires some experience or reading statistics. Stop acting like a blind sheep and try some objectivity. Before you test my professional ignorance, I have been in advertising for 15 years, I have DTP and experience in IT at the level of manager of small centers.
And didn't you think that this is mainly protection against various attempts to get your data? When it is locked, it makes it difficult to extract data, whether by direct copying from memory or another method. Personally, I prefer absolute protection and privacy. Despite the fact that when I buy something I appreciate it. I also won't push a car for a million to some uncle from the village who only has a hammer and a bigger hammer.
Off topic :-) what bothers me is when someone buys a phone for 10 and then instead of buying a new cable for a damaged one, they wrap the old one from which the wires are peeking out with insulating tape.
Yes exactly. why should some uncle from the village with a hammer get data from apple when apple can get it :D
When he takes it apart, he disconnects your rag and deciphers it from it
I kiss the apple sheep nicely and they will be happy, the rest of us just laugh :-)
That we would watch Apple's suicide live?
excuse me, take it another way - there will be no apple, no windows, then computers will disappear
can't work on linux
And what do you think mac os is? It's a regular debian linux with apple superstructure.
Such a decision does not have to be only about money. Security is a big topic today and such a procedure as applied by Apple is, at least for now, a guarantee that you have everything original, which an external service can cheat. The flip side of this is that it will be expensive and the customer will pay for it.
Jobs had already asked for the Apple 2 to be able to midify the device. I believe this measure is only in the spirit of Apple. I buy Apple professionals mainly because of security and if this step is to lead to strengthening, then that's fine.
Those who buy Apple don't like this at all, throw away the damaged piece of HW from Apple and go to the store for a new, better one :)
Better not to buy apple. It used to be that buying an apple computer, or ntb, meant that you bought an innovative device that brought technological progress, for example graphics with a processor that had twice the data width, or a revolutionary performance of an original processor that was not possible on an ibm platform (eg Risc PC) . Today it is a completely standard PC with Linux (Mac OS). Good, it has relatively innovative software, a nice aluminum design, and a slight amount of intelligence. But it's still just an overpriced PC. It only carries a label for the rich, and even though I have enough money, there is nothing attractive about it anymore. For that price, I can buy notebooks twice as powerful in the PC world, I can also have Linux there. And the aluminum design is common even there.