Comments like these really rub me the wrong way. If it were some other company that actually has such a program or isn't as evil and uncooperative in so many as

Comments like these really rub me the wrong way. If it were some other company that actually has such a program or isn't as evil and uncooperative in so many aspects as Apple I could even agree to the sentiment (but not the wording). But as noted in the comments - they do fucking not for Mac OS. As noted in other comments - they knew about this bug anyway for a while now and it requires local code execution first to do anything anyway. They deny problems until a shit tornado actually starts somewhere and they absolutely love to control the narrative. They are clearly PR first, lobby and fight against right-to-repair efforts because they want to "guarantee the quality of authorized repair", sell expensive proprietary software on proprietary hardware (ostensibly to provide absolute perfection by controlling the entire stack), have slogans like "it just works", "light years ahead", "touch of genius", "say hello to the future", care enough about current social outrages (USA specific ones that is..) to do truly silly crap like water pistol emoji or removing a historic game that featured a confederate flag. They are also secretive as hell (i.e. 0 social media presence/interaction, YouTube comments off on their channel to prevent criticism, engineers under stricter NDA compared to Google, Microsoft, etc.), instantly fired an engineer for a mere iPhone X video her daughter filmed in Cupertino Campus, actually sent police to raid a house of a Gizmodo reporter and confiscate his stuff (which apparently breaks journalist protection laws both federal and state but oh well, it's USA and Apple, money talks, bullshit walks) when they wrote about a leaked iPhone 4G prototype, ran idiotic misinforming (but funny, so apparently it's okay!) ads in the past like the "Macs don't get viruses" one but still managed to have bugs like infamous "goto fail" or "password got stored in hint" (which are frankly insane to me). If they cared they could do as much as silently toss a few thousand dollars per big bug, make sentimental/bragging right's rewards (like Knuth's cheques), etc. but chose not to. They should be thankful that between "sell 0 days on the dark net", "do what Apple says for free" and "post online for cred" actual security hackers pick the last and not the first (I mean, I also would out of principle of not being a criminal, but there is clearly something wrong with a company's image if we have to fall back to a person's moral compass or even criminal justice system for any choice). To add to the problem a lot of their fans are outright rabid, instantly plunder the Apple stores at each product release and criticizing Apple anywhere near them online results in being called a Microsoft/Android shill, hater, poor, fucker, faggot and such, and Apple's PR fluff being regurgitated at you. If someone lives lavishly in a multi-billion ivory tower that also has a diamond mine under it while surrounded by their cultists and won't even toss you leftovers when you help them out, what do they expect? They are a crazily rich, global and long established company and they should stop being excused. They are the world pinnacle of technology business in every sense and if they can't deliver they deserve the criticism. The poor guys working for free on OpenSSL for a bazillion platforms for single digit k of donations per year (and 0 compensation from all the corporate freeloaders from Fortune 500) got torn a new asshole the size of La Manche for HeartBleed but Apple keeps getting excused for not being able to get their shit together (by their own wish, like not having a bug bounty after all the bugs that happened in 2017) while they have the opinion of saints and geniuses and control everything to the tiniest details - shops, repairs, hardware, software, components and information.