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What makes you sure your version is true, while there's isn't? They're not your friend, they're a giant, exploitative megacorp.

naoqj 5y ago
The author of this blog post is not my friend either and they sell an antivirus so they are trying to get me to give them money as well.
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- fartcannon 5y ago
  Fair point. It does appear to be an antivirus software blog. Interesting, thank you.
unethical_ban 5y ago
Not all theories deserve equal weighting.
pjbeam 5y ago
Yes, they are megacorp. In the general case I think that working to uphold brand standard is the parsimonious interpretation rather than hahaha won't fix.
krnlpnc 5y ago
* Taking extra time for a stable fix * Rushing out a patch that introduces possible instability Which action do you think is better for business?
- rob74 5y ago
  That probably depends on the number of users whose Macs get pwned in this "extra time" they are taking - I guess these users would have preferred a potentially unstable fix to no fix.
  - bastawhiz 5y ago
    If Apple released an unstable fix that caused crashes, we'd be here arguing about how they should have taken more time to get it right. The odds that a buggy patch that's pushed to your computer crashes it is far higher than your computer being pwned by attackers because a fix is still in the works.
jedberg 5y ago
They are a megacorp which employs actual humans who generally aren't evil. The evilness is usually an emergent behavior. I doubt the security team is sitting there choosing not to patch this, given that they are passionate about security. And it's unlikely that management has told them "don't release the patch, we want the people on old OSs to suffer!!". Most likely is that they just don't have as many resources for writing and testing the patch on the old versions, so it's taking longer.
- amelius 5y ago
  Or their security team is understaffed because of evil emergent greedy behavior of the company.
  - stjohnswarts 5y ago
    Yep this is the reason. Monterrey probably has 10X as many people on it.
    - sulam 5y ago
      This is probably off by a factor of 2 at least. Is if you told me that Monterrey has 5x as many users, I’d agree. Not 10X. That said, there are likely a sizable group (5%?) of customers that cannot upgrade to Monterey. Apple should be worried for these customers, too.
      - stjohnswarts 5y ago
        I was talking about developers, not users.

naoqj 5y ago

The author of this blog post is not my friend either and they sell an antivirus so they are trying to get me to give them money as well.

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fartcannon 5y ago
Fair point. It does appear to be an antivirus software blog. Interesting, thank you.

unethical_ban 5y ago

Not all theories deserve equal weighting.

pjbeam 5y ago

Yes, they are megacorp. In the general case I think that working to uphold brand standard is the parsimonious interpretation rather than hahaha won't fix.

krnlpnc 5y ago

* Taking extra time for a stable fix * Rushing out a patch that introduces possible instability Which action do you think is better for business?

rob74 5y ago
That probably depends on the number of users whose Macs get pwned in this "extra time" they are taking - I guess these users would have preferred a potentially unstable fix to no fix.
- bastawhiz 5y ago
  If Apple released an unstable fix that caused crashes, we'd be here arguing about how they should have taken more time to get it right. The odds that a buggy patch that's pushed to your computer crashes it is far higher than your computer being pwned by attackers because a fix is still in the works.

jedberg 5y ago

They are a megacorp which employs actual humans who generally aren't evil. The evilness is usually an emergent behavior. I doubt the security team is sitting there choosing not to patch this, given that they are passionate about security. And it's unlikely that management has told them "don't release the patch, we want the people on old OSs to suffer!!". Most likely is that they just don't have as many resources for writing and testing the patch on the old versions, so it's taking longer.

amelius 5y ago
Or their security team is understaffed because of evil emergent greedy behavior of the company.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Yep this is the reason. Monterrey probably has 10X as many people on it.
  - sulam 5y ago
    This is probably off by a factor of 2 at least. Is if you told me that Monterrey has 5x as many users, I’d agree. Not 10X. That said, there are likely a sizable group (5%?) of customers that cannot upgrade to Monterey. Apple should be worried for these customers, too.
    - stjohnswarts 5y ago
      I was talking about developers, not users.