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From: Richard Tobin on 17 Apr 2010 11:34 Apple seem to be getting nuttier every day. Today a Mac Rumours article describing a change in the format of Mac serial numbers has been "Removed at Request of Apple". No reason is given. Perhaps they'll demand Google remove this posting from its archive... -- Richard
From: David Empson on 17 Apr 2010 12:32 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Apple seem to be getting nuttier every day. Today a Mac Rumours > article describing a change in the format of Mac serial numbers > has been "Removed at Request of Apple". No reason is given. I can think of two: (a) Apple regards the information as some kind of trade secret. Beats me why. Information about the structure of the existing serial numbers is widely known (certainly how to extract the date of manufacture, but I didn't previously know the model was encoded in the last three characters). (b) The information was factually incorrect and may give people misleading information about details like when a Mac was manufactured. > Perhaps they'll demand Google remove this posting from its archive... They'll have to brainwash me as well then, as I read the MacRumours article before it was taken down and can remember most of it. As (b) seems more likely, I'll refrain from repeating it in detail until I see some actual serial numbers. Anyone with a Mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro care to confirm whether your computer's serial number is 12 characters long, and if so, what characters are in the third, fourth and fifth positions? (Alleged date code, using an alphanumeric coding system.) Earlier Macs have an 11 character serial number, described in detail here: <URL:http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/how-to-decipher-underst and-apple-mac-serial-number-format.html> -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: David Empson on 17 Apr 2010 12:38 David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Apple seem to be getting nuttier every day. Today a Mac Rumours > > article describing a change in the format of Mac serial numbers > > has been "Removed at Request of Apple". No reason is given. > > I can think of two: > > (a) Apple regards the information as some kind of trade secret. Beats me > why. Information about the structure of the existing serial numbers is > widely known (certainly how to extract the date of manufacture, but I > didn't previously know the model was encoded in the last three > characters). > > (b) The information was factually incorrect and may give people > misleading information about details like when a Mac was manufactured. > > > Perhaps they'll demand Google remove this posting from its archive... > > They'll have to brainwash me as well then, as I read the MacRumours > article before it was taken down and can remember most of it. As (b) > seems more likely, I'll refrain from repeating it in detail until I see > some actual serial numbers. > > Anyone with a Mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro care to confirm whether your > computer's serial number is 12 characters long, and if so, what > characters are in the third, fourth and fifth positions? (Alleged date > code, using an alphanumeric coding system.) Sorry, off by one. Should be fourth, fifth and sixth positions if the MacRumors article had the details right. > Earlier Macs have an 11 character serial number, described in detail > here: > > <URL:http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/how-to-decipher-underst > and-apple-mac-serial-number-format.html> -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Richard Tobin on 17 Apr 2010 12:40 In article <1jh4lp0.xl6xgwzccpljN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: >(b) The information was factually incorrect and may give people >misleading information about details like when a Mac was manufactured. .... >As (b) seems more likely You'd think that if that was the case they would have said so. The lack of explanation makes their increasingly-obsessive desire to control everything more likely I think. -- Richard
From: eastender on 17 Apr 2010 14:16 In article <hqckes$rsf$1(a)pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > Apple seem to be getting nuttier every day. Also its censorship of the app store, with this ban for a prize winning cartoonist: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/15/mark_fiore_rejected_from_app_stor e/ E.
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