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Originally Posted by Kolenka
I don't see anything wrong with your viewpoint on the subject (even though I disagree), but this example here is a bit of a strawman. When Apple ditched floppies, they didn't use floppies to flash the firmware on the motherboard (or anything else that vital) on their machines.
They could boot directly from CD, they could flash the firmware by writing the update to NVRAM and rebooting (the firmware would then update itself). Now, the sad reality is that even now, your phone's boot firmware is more advanced than what is in your BIOS because of a lack of drive to move to something like EFI which would modernize it. It gets the job done, but it's still one of those small things that if polished, leave an impact on the average customer.
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I don't use Macs unless at a friends house, but my understanding was that the G3 iMac simply reset to default values on the PRAM? My issue on the PC side was updating to a newer version. As an aside, it really galls me when manufacturers give firmware updates in the form of an *.exe.