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It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.
Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.
I’m aware, but I have upgraded my 256GB to 2TB so not sure what you’re on about. See: https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac-mini/tips/how-to-upgrade-the-ssd-in-your-m4-mac-mini
And: https://expandmacmini.com/
Saving this for later.
it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time, energy and money apple spends engineering things to be worse for customers.
In this case Apple also prioritizes performance.
It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.
Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.
You and I both know that Apple doesnt do this shit for cost efficiency.
They do it to make make shit worse for consumers and "unauthorized" repair services.
They’re a business. Reducing their costs (while charging you a premium) is absolutely what they do.
Apple’s whole deal for decades now has been building a vertical supply chain. Using their own SSD controller is one less component they have to pay others for.
They just don’t give a shit about downsides: aftermarket repairers or user upgradeability.
Why? Anti-features aren't just Apple. All big tech do it to users.
Edit: And automotive, white goods companies, etc, etc
other companies arent engineering serial numbers and other identity information into every component, even shit as small as halleffect sensors, so it cant be taken from a damaged device to repair a differnt device of the same make and model.
To act like what apple does is an industry standard is nothing but blatant apple fanboy propaganda.
Oh no, they are bastards. Extra big bastards in a sea of bastards. I blame regulators. The hope is the right to repair because law in more and more places in more and more market areas.
Without the EU regulators, Apple would never have gone USB C.
There are some companies as bad as Apple (John Deere comes to mind), but it's certainly not the norm.
User-replacable standard m.2 SSDs are bog standard and non-standard formats are really rare. Apart from Apple I can not think of many companies that do that. IIRC Red Magic cameras, and Synology NAS but that's the only ones I can think of.