This seems absurd to me, yeah ok the SSD failing could be indicative of a bigger issue. But also now if any single component required to boot the machine fails then I also lose my data.
We've turned several potential failure points resulting in data loss into almost every component on the board failing resulting in data loss.
We all know how much they charge for a full board replacement though and why this change will reflect well in Tim Cook's charts.
I think that getting people to understand that regular backup are necessary when physical things, that exist around water, other humans, and electricity, are involved, is an impossible task that usually ends in tears.
If you don't back up your data outside of a single entity, you will lose that data eventually.
iCloud is the obvious choice for critical data, within the Apple ecosystem. Outside of one of the cloud services, it's the good old method of having some form of archival media to keep it on, which was the whole draw of the cloud services, when they first came out.
As experienced technical people we know that users will never grasp that no matter how many times we tell them, we’ll still be getting handed laptops that can’t boot and the “my only copy of my photos are on there, can you get them off?”
this is like telling someone that if they lose their keys, or if a light bulb inside their house goes bad, they will lose their house and all their possessions, and then say 'you should insure everything you own'.
Its a ridiculous decision by Apple made purely for profit
I'm sorry, but storage devices have a failure rate of exactly 100%. They always have, and always will. Sometimes spontaneously, sometimes slowly. This has never had anything to do with Apple.
The correct approach to data integrity is backups, not trying to scrape bits from something that smoke has escaped from.
If your data is on a single device, you will eventually lose that data. Some people haven't experienced it yet, but it's a known truth that whole industries have processes around.
We've turned several potential failure points resulting in data loss into almost every component on the board failing resulting in data loss.
We all know how much they charge for a full board replacement though and why this change will reflect well in Tim Cook's charts.