I suspect even Apple's Technical Support agents don't know this second recovery mode exists; they didn't attempt it at the time.
Has anyone else had issues booting into recovery mode?
New M1 mini you just hold down the power button.
I know that's not people's issue here but just thought it should be said for anyone new to the new mini.
If their own tech support didn't know that does kind of support my theory
For the first X months, questions bubble to the engineer who wrote the thing.
Add in the fact that documentation for Apple... "isn't a priority" (to put it charitably).
This information has to exist internally, and compiling is literally makework for an intern - it's just that Apple have a very secretive culture.
I think Disk Utility in recovery partition has some serious bugs and it can make it 'not bootable'
I hope you get a chance to repro the issue eventually so that we can all benefit. Eventually it will be possible to do the DFU restore from non-OSX systems using idevicerestore, so that should make the testing more convenient.
>But there's no reason to believe that based on one person's singular occurrence of the bug.
Some times it depends which person it is. With all modesty I can observe tendencies with Apple bugs for some years now. There are very obvious for me reasons why those bugs appear and why they would appear more. I've got too much of bugs and I've started to talk about some of them because I just can't stand it. Apple should be Way better then this and for me it seems like no one really cares too much. I do care. Product should be done with some love for goodness sake...
So then there are really two points you are trying to make here: M1 has a buggy boot process, but really more importantly is that Apple's product quality has been declining as a general trend.
Maybe the latter is true, I don't know (I've never owned an Apple computer prior to the M1). And I don't want to diminish that issue. But I don't think it is fair to assume everyone will have the bugs you had just because you believe their product quality is declining. Of course if you assume every bug you face is a typical occurrence then it will only reinforce your existing notions about the product quality, without really helping anyone else to get informed about the true state of the product.
I believe this is exactly what I am trying to do: Helping anyone else to get informed about the true state of the product. And I want it to be fixed and gladly report about it.
> Because Apple doesn’t put a warning alerting that it doesn’t really format a drive and Big Sur installer is stupid and it doesn’t see it as a “clean” drive but it see the “Data” Volume and it tries to find a user to authorize the installation, but since the drive has no users, it fails.