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Just an example: If Apple simply wants to turn your iPhone into a brick, it can do that and there is no one who can reverse it.
Um. No they can't. The class action lawyers would have a field day with that.
They already do so with apps.
If Apple deems the app too old, then it won't be compatible and is as useful as a brick.
You know I have software on my PC old enough I can't run it even in compatibility mode, I'd need to spin up a VM to run it or a pseudoVM like DOSBox, it's not unheard of it's not even uncommon.
they have the power to do it, is what I'm saying
I don't trust MacOS, its proprietary code obviously hides evil spying and control functions over the user. Apple has always been an enemy of the free software community because it is not in favor of its loyal customers but only its greedy shareholders. There is no balance, Apple has always adopted anti-competitive measures. That's just to say the least.
It took the EU legislation to force them adapt USB 3 charger port. Their consumer base are their cows.
And even though they have USB 3 ports, it's not even a proper USB 3 port as the lower-end models only support USB 2 speeds (480Mbps max)!
USB 2.0 in 2023 LOL LOL LOL LOL
Lightning was also 480Mbps so I wonder if they just changed the port but kept most of the internals the same
They claim that the die that they use for the M1 chip doesn't support USB 3 standards but the die that they use for the M1 Pro chip does.
Which is probably true, but they also made the chip so it's not much of a defence.
It's a pretty old chip though. They shipped it over a year ago and even that was mostly just an upgrade from LPDDR4 to LPDDR5. Which is a substantial upgrade, real world performance wise, but most of the engineering work would've been done by whoever makes the memory - not Apple's own chip design team who presumably were working on something else (I'd guess desktop/laptop chips, and those certainly do have USB-3).
Apple certainly could have included USB-3 support in those chips... but three years ago there wasn't any pressing reason to that so and this year they've added support for the models with the most expensive camera. And anyone who cares about data transfer speeds will buy the one with the best camera.
yeah, I forgot about that, it's a USB-C type port.
Exactly lol
It's not even USB 3 it's USB 2 delivered via USB-C. Because that's something everybody wants isn't it, slow charging on a modern standard that should be faster and indeed is faster on every other budget Android phone.
Apple is one of the largest contributors to open source software in the world and they've been a major contributor to open source since the early 1980's. Yes, they have closed source software too... but it's all built on an open foundation and they give a lot back to the open source community.
LLVM for example, was a small project nobody had ever heard of in 2005, when Apple hired the university student who created it, gave him an essentially unlimited budget to hire a team of more people, and fast forward almost two decades it's by far the best compiler in the world used by both modern languages (Rust/Swift/etc) and old languages (C, JavaScript, Fortran...) and it's still not controlled in any way by Apple. The uni student they hired was Chris Lattner, he is still president of LLVM now even though he's moved on (currently CEO of an AI startup called Modular AI).
Well, look at the annual contribution that Apple makes to the BSD team and see that Apple uses several open source software in its products but with minimal financial contribution. Even more so for a company of this size. Apple only "donates" when it is in its interest that such software is ready for it to use.