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macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models
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This is misleading in so many different ways.
Free OS upgrades/updates is Apple’s Unique Selling Proposition to its customers.
“A unique selling proposition (USP) refers to the unique benefit exhibited by a company, service, product or brand that enables it to stand out from competitors. The unique selling proposition must be a feature that highlights product benefits that are meaningful to consumers.”
This is a matter of Business Model Innovation and has nothing to do with costumers being entitled. Free OS upgrades is a feature specifically created to sway customers into the Apple ecosystem. In business terms it’s called having a competitive advantage.
You pay for Apple’s premium pricing so you can take advantage of that free OS update.
You as an Apple customer have the right to demand a smooth OS upgrade, including your 7 year old machine.
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I can't get rid of that damn red circle just because I don't have 2 step authorization that I don't want or need. It's incredibly annoying.
Copy paste on Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock
If you want the badge again:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 1 && killall Dock
Updated to Big Sur on my dual graphics 2015 15 inch MacBook Pro with no issues at all.
19 pages of comments, and they are all over the place. Common sense says: The hardware and software are constants.
The variable is the user, and what applications/extensions have been user installed.
And then, the nagging feeling that some of the negative reports are from professional negative reporters.
Big Sur is humming along beautifully on my seven-year old MBP. It's been an improvement over Catalina, and Catalina was an improvement over Mojave. For a fact.
Keep up the good work Apple.
The variable is the user, and what applications/extensions have been user installed.
And then, the nagging feeling that some of the negative reports are from professional negative reporters.
Big Sur is humming along beautifully on my seven-year old MBP. It's been an improvement over Catalina, and Catalina was an improvement over Mojave. For a fact.
Keep up the good work Apple.
Dude this has got to be one of the best posts I’ve ever seen. “Relationship” is exactly right. Hilarious!!! But kinda sad too. We all need to detach from this tech crap. Me included!
Just call Apple support.
They are super helpful and they will transfer you to sales where you can buy a new one.
They are super helpful and they will transfer you to sales where you can buy a new one.
Not a relationship.
they are straight up full time members of a cult.
it’s really sad and make regular apple products users look really bad.
‘honestly, the fanatics are a bigger reason for me to leave the walled garden, even more so than apple owns draconian control and hostile anticonsumer practices.
I have an iMac Pro and 2018 13” MBP. Big Sur installed just fine on my Mac Pro, but on my MBP the progress. At got about 90% of the way there and has now been stuck for the last 30 min. What should I do?
Uh huh, and what was Apple's unique selling proposition when they were charging $129 for Mac OS? I'm waiting.
And now I'm beginning to understand why people say Mac users know nothing about computers.
What a deep post, one of the bests!!
it simply means Apple has changed its Business Model.
“At its core, your business model is a description of how your business makes money. It’s an explanation of how you deliver value to your customers at an appropriate cost...these tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams.“
It means apple has figured a way to make OS upgrades free thereby providing better service compared to its competitors while simultaneously increasing its revenues and profits.
They’ve calculated that the cost of providing free OS upgrades is outweighed by the revenue it generates by selling more hardware and services through the apple ecosystem, increasing Apple's products value in the eye of the customers, thereby increasing customer retention and brand loyalty, and in turn increasing customer spending.
On October 2020 Apple announced a profit of $12.67 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter of that year. So this strategy has paid off.
The gist is:
Free OS upgrades is a feature. When that feature is “broken” you have the right to demand it to work.
You pay for Apple’s premium pricing so you can take advantage of that free OS update.
You as an Apple customer have the right to demand a smooth OS upgrade, including your 7 year old machine.
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updated successfully on day one, run even faster than catalina, though some UI elements are placed horribly
MBP 13” 2014
MBP 13” 2014
I ran through every Big Sur beta on my "Unsupported" late 2013 iMac with little to no issue. I went to install the final retail version and on reboot - BOOM - im stuck with a black screen. The machine is now bricked and cant get it to do anything. Not sure what my next steps are.
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HI. Try pressing the "Option" & the "Power On" buttons together. You can release both when you see the familiar Apple logo appears. It solved the black screen on my Macbook Pro 13-inch Retina mid 2014 after updating to Big Sur from Catalina.
Cheers. Edwin
Cheers. Edwin
That's not evidence of planned obsolescence. That slow down was done in specific circumstances in order to prevent sudden shutdowns. A slightly slower phone is better than one that will randomly switch off due to a degraded battery. The user has the option to disable the throttling. This is not evidence that Apple slows down old devices to force people to upgrade. If it was evidence, then Apple would have to do it to every iPhone 6 for no reason at all.
What seems to be constant on these comments is that people who don't have a problem do not care at all or even try to understand those that are having a problem and even blame the user for having expectations from a trillion dollar company... ie I don't have problem so I don't care about anyone else. Sad.
