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Let's not pretend that Apple's hand was forced here. This is the company that dreamed up a proprietary screw to keep people out of their phones and computers.
by Karunamon 9y ago
Let's not pretend that Apple's hand was forced here. This is the company that dreamed up a proprietary screw to keep people out of their phones and computers.
- baddox 9y agoIt sounds like you’re describing the pentalobe screw, but security screws have existed for decades. Torx created variants with rejection pins in the 1970s. One-way screws have probably been around much longer than that.
- Karunamon 9y agoAnd every single one of those had drivers you could buy in a pack with 50 other at Amazon for $10. They could have used any of them. And yet, they didn't. The world didn't need yet another security screw.