how big deal is this? (serious question)

X-Istence · on May 21, 2013

Not a big deal at all. Schematics only show how to connect the various bits and pieces. Maybe there is one or two things that were secret before, but anyone with a little time, a scope, a voltage meter and some time could have figured out how most of it connected anyway.

welterde · on May 21, 2013

And they also show what those bits and pieces are, which is actually quite a big deal, because the components often have non-helpful labels on them (like "Apple" "some internal ID"), which makes it almost impossible to find datasheets on them or source them (say you want to replace a component on the board that you suspect is broken).

So not really sure what would have been a big deal if not this..

renanbirck · on May 22, 2013

I don't think this is a big deal at all. It's not like you can build a Mac from scratch just by following those schematics.

At most they might be useful for someone looking to do reverse engineering.

chm · on May 22, 2013

China.

asiekierka · on May 21, 2013

Apple Legal is just going to C&D them and the leaker.

sargun · on May 21, 2013

You can't stop the signal. But to answer the original question, this really isn't very interesting.