Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by thrashh on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:01PM
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Because there’s no way to spin that as a benefit for the user.
Optics is the most important factor and it’s something Apple’s marketing department does better than most companies.
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by shawnz on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:01PM
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There are lots of ways they could spin that as a benefit for the user (i.e. security).
It would be a poor explanation, but even when there's a good explanation, as you can see it is still dismissed as just "good optics". So how do you tell the difference between "good optics" and features that provide real benefit?
That was a simple and cheap change with clear benefits for Apple in terms of discouraging modifications to devices they support so the cost versus benefits actually makes sense for Apple there.
Whereas to suggest they designed a whole property storage controller interface just for the purpose of discouraging user servicing doesn't make sense at all. If that was the goal why not just use off-the-shelf NVMe modified to have some kind of secret power-on key or something?