People accept it because they believe in the security model.
For a lot of those people, the security model just works. Same for their online activities and apps.
There are at least these scenarios:
They have been helped by the model. Yay Apple!
Nothing has happened to them yet. Yay Apple, and surely Apple being so great is why.
They have been burned by the model. BOO Apple!
Fact is the machine is not broken and is working as designed.
The owner did not take full advantage of the security and left the door open for someone else to walk through.
No judgment on the owner.
Now Apple? Yeah, a bit too draconian for me.
And I am on the other side of this mess. Bought a very new M1 Air from them. Cheap because the owner had died and nobody knew the password.
Interestingly, I had booted into recovery mode, and I found I could mount the SSD and a USB thumb drive which let me pull docs, pictures and such for them.
After that, I was able to boot into installing a fresh OS, supply my Apple ID and use the computer just fine...
Had it been in lost or stolen status? Probably would not have worked out..
At the time, I gave security a lot of thought. The Apple stuff is good enough people really do need to understand it or risk bad scenarios like this.
(I turned Find on)
My daily driver is a lenovo. The Apple is a fun machine for me.
> Interestingly, I had booted into recovery mode, and I found I could mount the SSD
I was under the impression that Apple Silicon Macbooks had disk encryption enabled by default and that this wouldn't be possible. Turns out while that is technically true, it's only relevant in the case of the SSD somehow being removed from the device and installed in another. In the case of real disk encryption FileVault needs to be enabled. Apparently it's easy to miss that step during setup, especially if you setup the Macbook without an Apple ID/iCloud.
For a lot of those people, the security model just works. Same for their online activities and apps.
There are at least these scenarios:
They have been helped by the model. Yay Apple!
Nothing has happened to them yet. Yay Apple, and surely Apple being so great is why.
They have been burned by the model. BOO Apple!
Fact is the machine is not broken and is working as designed.
The owner did not take full advantage of the security and left the door open for someone else to walk through.
No judgment on the owner.
Now Apple? Yeah, a bit too draconian for me.
And I am on the other side of this mess. Bought a very new M1 Air from them. Cheap because the owner had died and nobody knew the password.
Interestingly, I had booted into recovery mode, and I found I could mount the SSD and a USB thumb drive which let me pull docs, pictures and such for them.
After that, I was able to boot into installing a fresh OS, supply my Apple ID and use the computer just fine...
Had it been in lost or stolen status? Probably would not have worked out..
At the time, I gave security a lot of thought. The Apple stuff is good enough people really do need to understand it or risk bad scenarios like this.
(I turned Find on)
My daily driver is a lenovo. The Apple is a fun machine for me.
You asked why. Hope this helps.