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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
It's quite interesting that Steve Jobs has been dead for a couple of years and Apple is getting more obstinate, not less about not letting people into their computers. He must have really surrounded himself with true believers.
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Apple's culture of enforced inaccessibility should provoke a massive consumer exodus, like the one that chastened Sony Corporation after it crippled its pro and consumer recorders to appease its music and movie segments.
A desktop computer is not a compulsive juice fast. Jobs had some great ideas, but his obsessiveness led to pathological restrictions as easily as it did disarming innovations. Planned obsolescence is not a reasonable excuse for the total lack of access to the insides of large computers.
What if automobile manufacturers started doing that -- sealing off the hood and enclosing a car's internal parts in oblongs of airhole-riddled brushed metal? "You can still fill the radiator -- for now -- but no one's touching the battery."