XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:48:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   The mere fact that Shit believes he has ever showed us _anything_ other   
   than the effects of self-delusion is laughable.   
      
      
      
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