Every iPhone ships with a chain of trust that starts with Apple’s root certificate, not yours. The kernel you run, the OS you update, the apps you install — all gatekept through keys Apple holds. This is sold as security, but security means nothing if only one party controls the locks. Android has its own chain of Google-verified boot, which is the same architecture with worse transparency. Both platforms decided that your device belongs to whoever signed the firmware. Free software means you can audit, modify, and share what runs on your machine. That requires unlocked boot chains, not just open-source kernels running inside a proprietary trap. Why should the device you bought be the only one you don’t control?

Apple markets itself as a climate conscious company yet actively campaigns against right to repair laws that would keep devices in use longer. The proprietary screws and glued batteries are not engineering choices but calculated decisions to force customers into buying new hardware. Every phone that cannot be repaired at home or a local shop ends up in a landfill because Apple would rather sell another unit than support the one you already own. Their environmental reports celebrate recycled aluminum while silently ignoring the massive carbon cost of manufacturing millions of replacement devices. Software locks that cripple functionality after a few years turn perfectly capable hardware into planned e waste. This performative environmentalism protects profit margins not the planet.

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Why does Apple get praised for environmental PR while actively preventing the repair work that would actually reduce electronic waste?

Apple released updates for all iOS devices back to the iPhone 5s, that phone is more than 12 years old and is still getting security updates.

I’m on the iPhone X and trying to buy European for my next phone, especially with Tim Apple sucking up to Trump, but 12 years of security updates is impressive commitment.

Hackintosh users are successfully running macOS 26 Tahoe on their devices, in a battle that’s taking place as Intel Mac support enters its final year.

Apple declared during WWDC 2025 that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last macOS version to include support for Intel Macs. While the end of that support obviously affects Mac users, it also impacts users of Hackintoshes.

With it being the last generation of macOS to work with Intel Macs, this means that macOS Tahoe will be the last that can be made to work on non-Apple hardware. Since a Hackintosh is a computer that isn’t a Mac but still runs macOS, and are chiefly x86-based, that will effectively end the ability to update to macOS 27 or later versions.

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