Can you give more information about what the stated purpose of the upgrade was? Surely they didn't actually tell you they wanted to brick your laptop remotely?

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thaumasiotes 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

I'm speculating, but recently there's been a trend to prevent laptops from sleeping by disabling the existing functionality, because... companies hate customers?

This causes major problems for laptops that are ever located inside bags.

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SSLy 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

> companies hate customers?

clueless VPs want their products to behave like Apple's, but then beancounters won't sign a budget for iteration. MVP is shipped, turns out it's always buggy.

	▲	thaumasiotes 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		What, Apple advertises sleep and then decides "you know what, even though it works fine, and is heavily used, and is essential for enabling laptops to be portable, which is the only advantage they have over desktops - we should just stop that from working"? Or is this more of a "Who's going to notice that the functionality they use every day has been disabled?" kind of idea? The only feature here is that you're no longer allowed to do something that was an important part of how the computer worked. That's the headline of the press release, and the goal of the software.

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harry8 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep.

Best to do that without telling your customers that long established behaviour would kill it. Dell.

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zeven7 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I assumed it was a fast boot thing. I hate it and have been fighting it for years. I can’t believe a company of the size insists on being so anti consumer.