I highly doubt Apple gives a shit about the 0.001% of its customer base that is replacing soldered NAND modules.
“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.
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.
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)
Looking forward to a Mac mini version.
I own Apple stock and an M4 Mini. Happy to see upgrade options.
Apple is literally like that landlord who’s stingy about turning the heating on… but with storage
They know people will massively overpay for storage. Their entire company history has been severely overcharging for memory and storage space.
It’s why I bought Apple stocks long before I bought any Apple products. I had faith in Apple consumers.
And memory.
Yes, that too!
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
This was a great article and the linked video was even better.
