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I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again

I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. Years ago I worked for Apple retail when Bootcamp was a thing and it was "unsupported" and not only was it behind security switches, but you had to go out of your way to download and set it up. I had a customer come in one morning steaming mad and demanding a refund for her new macbook. She was mad because (to paraphrase) she has been told that she wouldn't have all the problems and crashes her windows machine had and wouldn't have to deal with viruses and a host of other windows specific issues if she used a mac. But after a few weeks she was still having all of the same problems. The more she described the issue, the more it sounded like she'd never even bought a mac, but here she was with a 3 week old macbook in a box. And beyond that, she described having some hardware issues that had been corrected with a firmware update months earlier. The first boot and software update should have corrected all of that. So I asked her to show me some of what it was doing. …

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How will she install it if it is behind security toggle?

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What a great story. I wonder at what stage of Idiocracy lore we’re at, to require locked down software to “protect” people from “smart nephews”. The more I read from you people, the more I get amazed. I can’t believe how somebody would use such anecdotes with serious face against software freedom.

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Replace "macbook" with "iphone" and have the computer smart nephew jailbreak and install shit on it and the result is the same. At the end of the day, virtually any hardware you hand over to a user they will be able to break past its security.

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