[fluffy87]

I have an 8 year old MacBook Air. Still getting updates, still working perfectly well. Best 1000$ ever spent on a PC. Zero seconds invested in configuring or setting up anything.

At the end of the day, buying a Computer is a tradeoff. A lot of people would very happily tradeoff freedom for other values if the value proposition is good.

[comprev]

I purchased a MBA 4 years ago (i5/8GB/256GB) and it is by far the best investment in technology I have made. Ultra reliable, amazing battery life, light weight and nice to type on. At home it's plugged into a monitor/kb/mouse like a desktop. I like the tight software and hardware integration, which extends to an iPhone and iPad.

[qz2]

You win some you lose some. My 2018 MBA had to go back and ended up being returned permanently. I’m considering risking it again on an M1 MBA though.

[rangibaby]

I have a 2013 13” MBP that I have not being nice to (to put it mildly). It’s working great.

I have a 2013 15” MBP that I babied and kept in immaculate condition. It also worked great until some RAM failed a couple of weeks ago. It’s a brick now

[Tepix]

If Apple were to release low level documentation and source code for hardware it considers obsolete to help developers support it, it would not effect their business other than getting a lot of goodwill.

[867-5309]

it may not affect them at a pennies-in-billions level, but those pennies are owned by a few patent holders whose heirs will profit many times over in the foreseeable future

[toyg]

why? I doubt those obsolete chipsets will be used by anyone else, or anyone will be particularly motivated to shell out a lot of money for access to schematics.

[867-5309]

they are assets in the big machine, being sold or open sourced would reduce them and their associated incomes to nothing

[Tepix]

What patents do you have in mind? If things are patented anyway, it wouldn't hurt to document them.