Apple has a remarkable history in respecting customers privacy, anyway, here are some facts that comes from a respectable source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/mac-certificate-check-stokes-fears-apple-logs-every-app-you-run/
“The larger point was that, in most respects, the data collection by ocsp.apple.com wasn’t much different from the information that already gets transmitted in real time through OCSP every time we visit a website”
And here is a clear answer from Apple itself:
“Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked. We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices.
Notarization checks if the app contains known malware using an encrypted connection that is resilient to server failures. These security checks have never included the user’s Apple ID or the identity of their device. To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs.”
If you are concerned about your privacy then go living in a desert island disconnected from civil world since anything we do today is tracked in some way, from the web, forums, social media, most messaging software (funnily Apple is one of the few that don’t leak your data: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/study-shows-which-messengers-leak-your-data-drain-your-battery-and-more/ ) and so on.
About the T2 stuff… you can get your Mac repaired by any authorized or non authorized center. Some special tools may be required for specific tasks but again any authorized center can get access to that, BTW as far as I know the only things requiring that tools are TouchID and FaceId in mobiles and any people with a basic intelligence will understand that this is for security and privacy reason. Get your info correctly before posting nonsense, the fact that Apple “can” decide to authorize some repairing tasks doesn’t mean that they are actively doing that.
About the concern about scaling processor performance to desktop system, I can’s see a reason why this should not be achieved, you can be 100% sure that Apple have working desktop processor in their laboratory right now, the biggest technology company in the world (fact) don’t switch to new stuff blindly.
About Intel and AMD regaining the best IPC/watt performance, that will eventually happen sooner or later but you can be sure that when AMD will have 5nm CPU Apple will have 3nm one, so it will take some time and of course even more for Intel. If and when that will happen Apple may decide to switch again to AMD, Intel or whatever they want like they have done many time in the past.
To be honest this is just one more attempt to bash Apple ecosystem, seems all of your post here on cgtalk are about bashing something after all. If you live your life hating something you will only damage yourself in the long run.
Thanks for thrashing yet another topic in silly Apple VS whatever war, while the topic was on R23 benchmark.
