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Apple has been pretty clear in that they consider Macs to be in a wholly different category of devices than iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs. It's w
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
Apple has been pretty clear in that they consider Macs to be in a wholly different category of devices than iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs. It's why they bothered to make booting arbitrary operating systems a publicly accessible feature on M-series Macs, which they absolutely didn't have to do, with the iPhone/iPad having served as the basis of M-series Macs.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- smoldesu 4y ago> which they absolutely didn't have to do Strictly speaking, Apple doesn't have to do anything. They're judged against the quality of their prior products though, and prior Macs have worked well with an unlocked bootloader. If Apple threw that feature away (like the headphone jack or 32-bit software), then it would have been noteworthy, but it's not. You're ascribing goodwill to something as simple as a non-removed feature. Whatever the case is with Macs, regulators at-large don't seem to agree with Apple's product segmentation. If they want to distinguish iPhones from Macs, they'll have to find a way that doesn't undermine user authority.