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Hardware requirements/differences mostly. With the laptop example they can pull the storage medium (2.5" HDD/SSD, or NVMe), service it, and then reinstall. Whe
by Someone1234 5y ago
Hardware requirements/differences mostly.
With the laptop example they can pull the storage medium (2.5" HDD/SSD, or NVMe), service it, and then reinstall. Whereas iOS devices have storage soldered onto the mainboard and there's a cryptographic sync between the T2 chip and OS installation, so you cannot simply swap the storage onto a different phone (this is actually a legitimate security feature that just happens to hurt service-ability also).
I believe there are things they can do (different levels of access, managed by iOS) but the laptop analogy doesn't help here since it is an Apples and Grapefruit kinda comparison.
- perryizgr8 5y ago> there's a cryptographic sync between the T2 chip and OS installation, so you cannot simply swap the storage onto a different phone This is similar to how many laptops encrypt the ssd with a TPM chip. But they can still decrypt and image the drive provided they have the owner's credentials. So yes, of course apple can swap storage in Iphone, they just don't want to.