“People” = literally one guy who has the tools and skills to disassemble an SSD board. Sure, it does leave the door open to third parties doing this as a service. Kinda jumping the gun on this though.
I’ve seen like at least a dozen tinkerer-youtubers done it in first 2 days, and I’m sure there are like hundreds of them in each country by now.
It’s kinda clear to me that someone will come up with an adapter soon that anyone can buy and plug their SSDs easily.
“[Parts pairing] is completely unnecessary, has no benefit, and serves only to prevent users from easily swapping parts,” Collin told me.
Collin is wrong. Parts pairing totally kills the illegal parts market and I absolutely love that. Make stolen stuff utterly useless for criminals to eliminate the demand.
I love the new one where parts can be transplanted if the phone is not activation locked though.
Apple is literally like that landlord who’s stingy about turning the heating on… but with storage
They know people will massively overpay for storage. Their entire company history has been severely overcharging for memory and storage space.
And memory.
Yes, that too!
I highly doubt Apple gives a shit about the 0.001% of its customer base that is replacing soldered NAND modules.
Good! Much as I begrudge apple as a company, I’m glad users are still finding ways to upgrade and maintain the tech they use
I own Apple stock and an M4 Mini. Happy to see upgrade options.
This was a great article and the linked video was even better.
