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I imagine the main reason for the single capital letters is to make the password acceptable on those annoying websites with annoying requirements, not necessarily to add entropy.

If you already know it's in apple password format, then you know 1/17 of the letters are capital, but not which one so the number of combinations you have to try is multiplied by 17, for just over 4 additional bits of entropy.



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