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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by grishka on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:56PM (#24843893)
> One of the value props was the inability to reset and resell if it were lost or stolen.

It's sure one of those nice to have features, but there's no good reason why it has to be mandatory like it is. All in all, having a device purposefully retain some information when you factory reset it is user-hostile.

The "lost or stolen" argument also hardly holds for desktop computers like Mac Pro or Mac Mini or iMac, yet they still have T2s in them.

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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by hayksaakian on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:14PM (#24843967)
It seems like this is a feature designed to shrink the "used" market for Apple products -- and not a user benefiting feature.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by grishka on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:42PM (#24844092)
But one of the things about Apple products that makes people okay with the exorbitant pricing is the resale value. I thought Apple themselves realized this?
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by thewileyone on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:02AM (#24866452)
No, they want both you and the potential pre-owned Mac buyer to buy a new device each.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by threeseed on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:42AM (#24845075)
> The "lost or stolen" argument also hardly holds for desktop computers

Why ? People's houses get broken into all the time.

And probably 99.999% of laptops never leave a person's house.

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