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As I see it the primary customers for the professional class Macs are employees of ‘tech companies’, where there are rich veins of enterprise funding just waiti

As I see it the primary customers for the professional class Macs are employees of ‘tech companies’, where there are rich veins of enterprise funding just waiting to be wasted. Re: Cellular Connectivity Apple purchased the 5g chip ip and development teams from Intel in 2019, so I suspect we’ll see those modems in more apple gear this year. To maximise advertising impact and lessen the cash flow, I would guess they’ll be in non iPhone devices first, that feels like an apple move to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if they add it directly in the m2 chip, since that would help explain why they didn’t switch over to it last year.

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MrWiffles 5y ago
I think you may be on to something here with that. Not sure when it'll happen, but it's definitely not a matter of "if" in my opinion. And that worries me. Buying a computing device without the ability to truly disconnect it from the internet when I choose is a MAJOR red flag. "You can just click the wifi icon to turn off internet access" is not at all satisfactory, especially when there's a 5G connectable radio in the thing's firmware. Nice feature if your regular internet stops working, but because of the closed nature of Apple devices, we have zero way to audit whether or not it really IS disconnected from the internet when we're _told_ that it is. And to my mind that not only justifies the assumption that we're being lied to about this (and if discovered it'll conveniently be "fixed" in an "update") and other such things, but requires that assumption as well. Just another in a long line of signals that all point to more remote monitoring and surveillance. We all know Apple's supposed commitment to "privacy" is just marketing designed to trick those who don't know any better. I'm already exploring a complete abandonment of all Apple devices in favor of self-built and maintained Linux systems for personal and professional computing day-to-day. It'll be a long transition, and I'll have to virtualize a hackintosh (somehow) to use a few "must-have", employer/client-mandated apps. It's not going to be easy, but I'm pissed off enough with Apple's dragging their heels on implementing basic *nix features that allow for things like containers via kernel namespaces for so damn long, that I'm willing to climb that mountain no matter how tough it gets.
ksec 5y ago
>so I suspect we’ll see those modems in more apple gear this year. In more Apple gear seems to implies there are Apple gear which already uses their own Mode. Which is not true. The 2nd thing it is highly unlikely Apple will have their modem in iPhone, or any devices this year.

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MrWiffles 5y ago

I think you may be on to something here with that. Not sure when it'll happen, but it's definitely not a matter of "if" in my opinion. And that worries me. Buying a computing device without the ability to truly disconnect it from the internet when I choose is a MAJOR red flag. "You can just click the wifi icon to turn off internet access" is not at all satisfactory, especially when there's a 5G connectable radio in the thing's firmware. Nice feature if your regular internet stops working, but because of the closed nature of Apple devices, we have zero way to audit whether or not it really IS disconnected from the internet when we're _told_ that it is. And to my mind that not only justifies the assumption that we're being lied to about this (and if discovered it'll conveniently be "fixed" in an "update") and other such things, but requires that assumption as well. Just another in a long line of signals that all point to more remote monitoring and surveillance. We all know Apple's supposed commitment to "privacy" is just marketing designed to trick those who don't know any better. I'm already exploring a complete abandonment of all Apple devices in favor of self-built and maintained Linux systems for personal and professional computing day-to-day. It'll be a long transition, and I'll have to virtualize a hackintosh (somehow) to use a few "must-have", employer/client-mandated apps. It's not going to be easy, but I'm pissed off enough with Apple's dragging their heels on implementing basic *nix features that allow for things like containers via kernel namespaces for so damn long, that I'm willing to climb that mountain no matter how tough it gets.

ksec 5y ago

>so I suspect we’ll see those modems in more apple gear this year. In more Apple gear seems to implies there are Apple gear which already uses their own Mode. Which is not true. The 2nd thing it is highly unlikely Apple will have their modem in iPhone, or any devices this year.