16 May
2013
16 May
'13
6:21 p.m.
On 16/05/13 1:54 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Like buying _any of the 3rd party formatters_ that were advertised in
every issue of every Mac magazine? Professional Mac users knew about
them and used them.
This restriction wasn't in the hardware (Al Kossow's cited possible
non-lock-in corner cases notwithstanding).
--T
All in all,
really, there was never any kind of real restriction in
using other drives that couldn't be bypassed by anyone, so I really
don't understand where the whole "only works with Apple drives" myth
came from.
It is NOT A MYTH. The fact that it can be trivially circumvented AFTER
you know how, doesn't make it a "myth"
It comes from it being DELIBERATELY blocked.
Yes, somebody who already knows how can beat Apple's attempt at lock-in. For somebody who DOESN'T already know, it's a
bit of a project.
If you ALREADY know HOW it does it (looking for "(c) APPLE" in a known
region), it's not hard to crack something like that. ...
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com