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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1928652" data-attributes="member: 396914">Not really. It's just different from the way we dealt with Intel machines. In the Apple Silicon systems, the tight security of the system and the way it interacts with the Apple mothership have significantly changed. You can see in the article that just booting a new Mac creates all kinds of communications with Apple. Howard recently wrote an article about how dependent the systems now are on that connection:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/14/using-a-mac-without-a-network-connection/[/URL]Apple says they do that for security. I'm OK with it, as long as it doesn't get more visible to me. My one concern is that more software will do what Microsoft and Adobe already do, that is, &quot;phone home&quot; before launching an app I have paid for. And with subscriptions becoming more common, I think that is exactly what will be happening. Interconnectivity has a price.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1928652, member: 396914"] Not really. It's just different from the way we dealt with Intel machines. In the Apple Silicon systems, the tight security of the system and the way it interacts with the Apple mothership have significantly changed. You can see in the article that just booting a new Mac creates all kinds of communications with Apple. Howard recently wrote an article about how dependent the systems now are on that connection: [URL unfurl="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/14/using-a-mac-without-a-network-connection/[/URL] Apple says they do that for security. I'm OK with it, as long as it doesn't get more visible to me. My one concern is that more software will do what Microsoft and Adobe already do, that is, "phone home" before launching an app I have paid for. And with subscriptions becoming more common, I think that is exactly what will be happening. Interconnectivity has a price. [/QUOTE]

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