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They aren't done yet.

This is more a problem with companies not properly managing their Macs with an MDM than an issue with Activation lock.

Jamf, Mosyle, Addigy, Intune, Meraki, etc all have the ability to release an activation lock when wiping a Mac.

And I find it hard do believe that a company managing 3000 Macs doesn’t use an MDM.

OK that's on me. I hit the references and somehow thought I was done with the paper, I didn't think they would have the captions they used underneath that. I admit that was on my bad due diligence. Apologies

This has got to stop. But doing it is another issue. How ?

Enterprises can absolutely remove activation lock on managed MacBooks, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to buy my old work MacBook.

Complaining about this is no different than the people complaining about taking ownership of their Apple account keys and then being permanently locked out despite the numerous warnings.

These machines are supposed to be destroyed and parted out. Not resold as-is. Otherwise IT departments would remove the activation locks.

I, for one, want my enterprise laptop to be totally useless if someone swipes it at a hotel.

Do you also blame Apple for rendering iPhones inoperable if the actual owner reports them as stolen to dissuade theft and prevent data recovery?

E3 is cringy. They all do much better hosting there own events.

So I read the article and it says that companies sends the machines to be erased and destroyed but the recycler wants to resell them.

This sounds like activation lock is working as intended and the issue is that companies want to waste stuff by destroying them instead of reselling it.

Truly not a biased news source

Why?

I think the battery is a large part of it. Since they're much less energy dense than gas they take up the entire bottom of the car.

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still too expensive and still no where to charge it around here.

The only choice was in IT managers not wiping and deactivating the lock.

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>What sanctions prevents is the capacity to build high tech products for mass consumption or use.

Which it never did.

>Your not going to get chips at that scale on the black market.

What are you even talking about? They don't have to go to the black market to get them.

45-64 base msrp if you would have clicked the link and spent two seconds on the page

> This is not Apple’s fault.

They decided to put their customer's property rights (and likely Apple's profits) above the sustainability of their product.

I'm not saying that's a "bad" tradeoff but it is a choice they made so it is arguably their "fault". Theft deterrents aren't a free lunch.

The article says that the process for enterprises isn't the same, so.

The point of sanctions is not stop China from using high end or mid level chips at scale. Yes there will always be ways around the rules.

What sanctions prevents is the capacity to build high tech products for mass consumption or use. You can’t setup a factory churning out high end products without the ability to reliably get chips at a consistent quality. Your not going to get chips at that scale on the black market.

Help me understand, if the white collar job is gone, that's gonna decimate the middle class. Who's gonna buy stuff? Are these companies optimising themselves out of the business?

We’re talking about a retro-cool TV channel with enormous relevance and “eyeball” vs. an antique studio brand that, at best, people saw the logo briefly before a movie sometimes.

Sounds like I need to go back to not using the internet.

Ok I was a bit wrong in my understanding of the issue. If you read the article it says that you wipe the Mac and then it twitters unlocking at the next setup. Big corps are wiping them and selling them off in large batches.

When the refurbishing company gets them and tries to set them up they’re unable to get past that step.

Even a step beyond that I prefer that hard drives are totally destroyed depending on what the device was used for.