If these people are willing to provide schematics and motherboard traces to < 10,000 users, why can't Apple provide schematics and traces for devices being used by tens of millions of people?

Just because we know enough to know when we are getting shafted why is that an excuse to shaft other people who don't?

Intel have done some really shady things, and yet they still publish extensive documentation on how their processors work and how to get the best from them - Apple? Nothing.

That's hardly surprising. Intel sell their chips as components to be used by third parties who clearly need that information to do so, whereas Apple uses them only internally for their own products.

Not my problem.

Right, so don't buy Apple products. Again, not a problem.

I don't own any. The only reason why I bother complaining is that I respect that Apple aren't like Google or even microsoft both in terms of tracking and taste, but then they are extremely closed which spoils what I think would be the perfect laptop.