Apple Executive Greg Joswiak Dismisses Planned Obsolescence as 'Craziest Thinking in the World'

[SkippyThorson]

But you have options. I leave all my stuff in the cloud, and have a 4 TB drive (portable hard drive) for all my iTunes moves so 128gb computer works for me going to and from work. I keep my 4 TB drive in my computer bag and pull it out when I need it, which is usually only when I don't have strong enough Wi-Fi to stream.

This is a solid, viable option - and frankly, one I have to embrace and transfer to myself. I'm a classic gotta-have-it-all-with-me-all-the-time guy. So the SSD for space, speed and reliability all internal is very appealing to me.

 

[Mars56]

iOS: We care about your older devices.

MacOS: Please throw away your MacBook (Late 2009), MacBook (Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (Early 2011), MacBook Pro (Late 2011), iMac (Late 2009), iMac (Mid 2010), iMac (Mid 2011), Mac mini (Mid 2010), or Mac mini (Mid 2011).

What a great company...

(Sorry for the repost, but this is definitely relevant here.)

that's a pretty stupid thing to post.

 

[Count Blah]

that's a pretty stupid thing to post.

Yeah, I’m confused as well.

2012 15” cMBP is going strong, and will likely do so for a while longer, as Apple sold the 2013 13” cMBP for many years after the 2012 left the store.

 

[ignatius345]

Your line of thinking doesn't make sense. People want smaller, thinner devices and part of doing that is making things as compact as possible.

And your line of thinking is "you make things thinner by making them thinner"?

Look at TVs, there are very few user serviceable parts these days on them and people aren't complaining about that.

You talk about that like it's a good thing. We probably should be complaining about it.

Notebooks go the same way. You want thin, fast and light, you have to work to get most of the stuff on one board, not spread throughout.

There's only so much space to fit stuff and I'd rather take performance over a slower system that is user serviceable.

Who said anything about "slower"? You just added that yourself. In fact, if modern Mac laptops are any slower than they could be, it's because of this "thinner" obsession and the thermal and space constraints it introduces.

And as to the actual point of planned obsolescence, devices that are glued together and have no practicably user-servicable parts have artifically shorted lifespans. I just replaced the battery on a 2013 MacBook Air (not exactly a hulking machine) by just pulling out a few Torx screws. Try that with a 2018 Mac laptop.

Designing machines that actively thwart servicability... well, if that's not planned obsolescence, I don't know what is.