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[–] KoalaUnknown 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I highly doubt Apple gives a shit about the 0.001% of its customer base that is replacing soldered NAND modules.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"People" = literally one guy who has the tools and skills to disassemble an SSD board. Sure, it does leave the door open to third parties doing this as a service. Kinda jumping the gun on this though.

[–] Ugurcan 0 points 11 hours ago

I’ve seen like at least a dozen tinkerer-youtubers done it in first 2 days, and I’m sure there are like hundreds of them in each country by now.

It’s kinda clear to me that someone will come up with an adapter soon that anyone can buy and plug their SSDs easily.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the article this has lead a group to reverse engineer the proprietary board and start a Kickstarter to make it more accessible, which is pretty exciting (hopefully Apple doesn’t find a way to kill it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Looking forward to a Mac mini version.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you stunned, shocked, or blasted?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know what this is supposed to mean. I'm making a correction to the claim that more than one person is doing this and saying it's possible other companies could start manufacturing these parts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Many articles make headlines of the experience of one or few people and make it seem live a pervasive trend or situation.

I'm making a joke that many articles use ridiculous adjectives like stunned, when the subject of the headline is certainly not.

It's a joke about silly modern journalism, not you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Pft. Ain't that the truth. Gotcha journalism has been around for over a hundred years and we still suck it up.

[–] Alexstarfire 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm stunned that they slammed Apple like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol I love that someone downvoted us. We are joking about the same exact symptom the top comment is referring to: ridiculous article premises and silly titles.

[–] Alexstarfire 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meh, I don't care how the votes turn out. I don't post for upvotes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Sorry, guys - I had to. 😁

[–] darthsid 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Apple is literally like that landlord who’s stingy about turning the heating on… but with storage

[–] halcyoncmdr 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They know people will massively overpay for storage. Their entire company history has been severely overcharging for memory and storage space.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's why I bought Apple stocks long before I bought any Apple products. I had faith in Apple consumers.

[–] Alexstarfire 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] darthsid 1 points 22 hours ago

Yes, that too!

[–] Cris_Color 13 points 1 day ago

Good! Much as I begrudge apple as a company, I'm glad users are still finding ways to upgrade and maintain the tech they use

[–] fourish 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I own Apple stock and an M4 Mini. Happy to see upgrade options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This was a great article and the linked video was even better.