{"id":16504,"date":"2016-12-01T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2016-12-01T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:02:17","slug":"apples-new-os-activation-for-touch-bar-macbook-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/apples-new-os-activation-for-touch-bar-macbook-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s New OS “Activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik Gomez<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\n

Last week Joe Chilcote<\/a> discovered an interesting message when imaging a Late 2016 MacBook Pro TouchBar […]:<\/p>\n

A critical software update is required for your Mac. To install this update you need to connect to a network. Select a Wi-Fi network below, or click Other Network Options to connect to the internet using other network devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Attempting to skip this page would lead to an additional failure […] Even more worrying was the final note:<\/p>\n

Your Mac can’t be used until this update is installed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Welcome to the future of Apple’s hybrid ARM\/x86 platform.<\/p>\n

It’s also quite clear that destroying entire disks is going to lead to some pain points for people still imaging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Erik Gomez<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Online Activation is typically required after Internet Recovery or a full disk wipe and subsequent re-image.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Offline Upgrades seems to occur each time the machine there is a new firmware detected in the iBridge1_1Customer.bundle.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

My spidey sense tingled when I first noticed offline activations and offline upgrades. It was clear that Apple didn’t want to force a “Critical Update required” screen every time there was a new point release and we could use this to our advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erik Gomez (via Hacker News): Last week Joe Chilcote discovered an interesting message when imaging a Late 2016 MacBook Pro TouchBar […]: A critical software update is required for your Mac. To install this update you need to connect to a network. Select a Wi-Fi network below, or click Other Network Options to connect to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,100,1381,1434,573],"class_list":["post-16504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-12","tag-touch-bar","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16505,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions\/16505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}