You may recall the news late last month that a company named PhotoFast was producing 256GB upgrade kits for the new MacBook Air. As it turns out, Apple wasn’t too happy with the news, and now the company has been asked to stop.
9to5Mac is reporting that Apple has requested PhotoFast to stop making its third-party SSD upgrades for the new MacBook Air, which potentially boosted internal storage on the tiny laptops to 256GB as well as offering a performance bump, reading and writing at 250MB per second (the stock SSD runs closer to 150MB to 160MB per second).
Apparently, Apple wasn’t pleased with the idea, contacting PhotoFast last week and requesting that they “stop all production” on the upgrades. The company is complying in full -- PhotoFast is a member of Apple’s MFi program, which means they are licensed by Apple to create accessories for their products. As you can imagine, PhotoFast doesn’t want to lose such a lucrative license just to sell SSD upgrades.
The report notes that there’s still a chance that PhotoFast might resume production, ideally with a thumbs up from Apple themselves. Cupertino has been working harder in recent months to enforce situations like this, most notably requesting that HyperMac stop selling its third-party MagSafe based MacBook battery chargers, which were actually being created from refurbished Apple chargers.
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