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The gist of your argument is sound, but consumer culture is equally to blame as manufacturers. Consumers are used to throw-away cheap goods. People HN != consum
by systemvoltage 6y ago
The gist of your argument is sound, but consumer culture is equally to blame as manufacturers. Consumers are used to throw-away cheap goods. People HN != consumers. Apple's consumer base is mostly iPhone users and non-techie crowd.
If you bought a $30000 server, you'll get schematics and a lot of information of the product. Including motherboard traces and gerber files:
https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/ProjectOlympus https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/ProjectOlympus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXZJ6jrpIKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXZJ6jrpIKU
- smoldesu 6y agoIf 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?
- mhh__ 6y agoJust 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.
- simonh 6y agoThat'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.
- mhh__ 6y agoNot my problem.
- simonh 6y agoRight, so don't buy Apple products. Again, not a problem.
- mhh__ 6y agoI 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.
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