Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "2015 MacBook Pro banned from flying on certain airlines!" video.

  1. Yep, agreed... it's a "ban" in the sense that it hopes the Macbook owners themselves won't try to take their 2015 Macbooks in the plane, and then potentially throw the liability on top of them if they do despite warnings and something bad happens. But probably, no one is gonna enforce it. Which is a big side of how several bans work. Less about your direct real ability to do things, more about what happens if someone finds out you did, or alternatively if you do something that is banned and it ends up in a bad situation. About whether to hold this against Apple... it's just a thing that seems to periodically happen in batches of laptops regardless of brand. Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Sony Vaio... all of those had some model of laptop that got recalled because of battery issues. It's a long list, and some brands had multiple recalls over the years. The one thing people should understand if it is to put it against Apple is simply this: Apple is no different from all these other brands. In fact, it's quite likely that the batteries on the 2015 Macbook, as it is for several other Apple products, just comes from the same factories that mass produces the batteries for all these other brands. So, it comes as no surprise that batches of Macbooks could have similar problems. Apple does not do their own batteries. They don't have mass production facilities for batteries. They buy from someone else, and slap their brand there. This is also partially why the whole strategy of making independent repair battery replacement look bad is so eggregious. Not only it's very likely that there's no real difference between an Apple branded battery and a generic one, but also... did you know that a couple of the oh so catastrophic and feared iPhone battery fire cases happened... wait for it... inside an Apple store during maintenance work? Because whoever was doing it physically damaged the battery? Yeah... I'm not joking here. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-09/iphone-reportedly-explodes-zurich-apple-store https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/10/firefighters-iphone-explosion/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/19/apple-store-amsterdam-battery-explodes/
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