XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 30 Jan 2026 15:31:57 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   > He is trying to push what may very well be be real -- that there is   
   > a specific tradeoff with a downside that bothers him -- and use it   
   > to suggest something: that Macs do not last as long. I have shown   
   > where the opposite is true.   
      
   Where have you shown this?   
      
   There is an old engineering adage: “In any system, complexity arises,   
   not so much from the number of components, as from the number of   
   potential interactions between them”.   
      
   This is why engineers are careful to design complex systems in a   
   modular fashion, with careful separation between modules and   
   carefully-controlled interactions between them.   
      
   For “complexity”, in Apple’s case, read “propensity to failure   
   cascades”. Apple has sacrificed design modularity for the sake of   
   short-term profits. Sure, they will get away with it for the first few   
   years, but it will come back to bite them eventually.   
      
   Or rather, it will bite their users. But of course Apple will no   
   longer care by that point, will it?   
      
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