Apple: From "open hardware" to "rent your computer"

Date:
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:08:46 GMT

Description:
It took 46 years... but Steve Jobs' dream of computers that you can never
own, or work on, is fully here.

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In 1976, the founders of Apple Computer released their very first computer
the Apple I.

One noteworthy aspect of the Apple I: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs literally gave people the full schematics for the entire system.

Heck. They even helped local computer enthusiasts build their own .

Jump forward in time to the Apple II and Steve Jobs fought with his
co-founder (Wozniak) about expansion slots. Specifically, Steve Jobs hated the idea of the Apple II being an expandable machine and argued that it
should have, at most, two expansion slots. Wozniak stood his ground and the Apple II line always had at least 7 expansion slots.

Jump forward again to the release of the original Macintosh

During development, Steve Jobs mandated that the Macintosh not have any expansion slots at all . He argued that the Mac should be a completely
locked down system.

And, being as Wozniak was not on the Macintosh project, this locked down reality came to pass. Not a single expansion slot. Heck. Not even a RAM slot.

Flash forward to 2022.

Apples new M1 based computers are designed to be purposefully difficult to upgrade and nearly impossible to repair. With the iPad and iPhone line
being utterly locked down lacking even the most basic ability to change out a battery.

But, technically, us users still own the hardware. Which has been a constant thorn in the side of Apple.

That is all about to change.

According to reports from Bloomberg and Zero Hedge , Apple is preparing to launch a hardware subscription service.

Apples obvious end goal: You wont own any of your hardware (or the software that runs on it). And youll be happy.

This truly is the result of Steve Jobs decades-long focus on users not being able to repair or upgrade their own computers. Without Steve Wozniak to reel the company back in Apple appears set to fulfill the original vision of Steve Jobs.

And every Apple customer is the worse off because of it.

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