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danox said:

Over the years I have used many browsers on the Amiga and Mac systems by choice and utter crap designed on Windows systems Microsoft and Google at work, I have tried Mozilla but the experience was like Linux a free pizza and beer show where no features are set and everything changes at a whim daily/weekly.

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For what it's worth, I use Firefox ESR, which usually gets updated only every month or two (or when there's a serious security flaw), but I really only use it for testing or when Safari fails in some unexplained fashion. I also keep a browser based on Chromium to test compatibility with Chrome without giving Google a chance to suck my data.

I started doing the above when I was still working — and fortunate enough to use Macs nearly exclusively — and have continued since I became a bum, er, retired.

timmillea said:

I don't think Steve Jobs ever had a 'vision'. He started young and arrogant, believing in his superiority and ruthlessly exploiting the connections he had to make money. He got a little wiser with age and learned how to present himself better but he never lost his self-superiority or arrogance. Had he been an academic and shared his abilities at concept-level, his ideas would have been refined faster, improved and shared with the World for free, instead of just making money. He was a troubled individual made more extreme by his financial success. At least he used apple to bring us some great 'products' instead. 

Cook is the ultimate logistics man, shortly to retire, who brought us the monstrosity of the Mac Studio. He also ejected Steve Job's equal, Johny Ive. The trajectory for Apple currently looks irrecoverable. Burn-up. 

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Can’t figure out if this is sincere, or simply a bit of trolling. In either case, I’ll bite, because there are a couple of things that are patently inaccurate.

Yes, Steve Jobs had some pretty serious character flaws, and had a hard time treating most employees as human beings until he was, unsurprisingly, mellowed a bit by marriage. But both before and after that watershed in his life, he was able to organize and drive people on to great things. As much as I favor complete openness in new developments in, say, medicine, the academic environment is the last place an actual product will get produced in sufficient quantities to keep a single person alive (cf. penicillin), much less treat all the victims of war or a pandemic. You need industry for that. And worse, as anyone with a good memory knows, press releases (inevitably written by arts graduates) from universities crowing about advances made on their research campuses curiously rarely lead to any production at all — and none on that research campus, but only by industry. Do I think the rabid egotism of many industrial leaders isn’t toxic? Of course not. But it takes the organizing and drivings force of an industrial leader with vision to produce actual things. And it doesn’t hurt if, as in Mr, Jobs’s case, that leader is an accomplished showman.

By the way, the Studio is anything but a monstrosity. May not be what you want or need, but a good number of paying customers disagree with you.

MrMcLovin said:

Unless you were hired as a remote-only employee, either get to work or resign. SIMPLE. 

mystigo said:

I was wondering about this while I was reading the story this morning. How is this any different from any other security fix? They issue tons of them. The story ought to be how Apple takes security seriously.

dewme said:

Apple should consider setting up some form of opt-in notification service to allow Apple to directly communicate with customers regarding software and firmware updates. Apple’s lazy push update model coupled with the arbitrary Chicken Little media response to some but not all security updates means that the vast majority of Apple’s customers are getting “notified” about updates via third party sources. I get the vast majority of my update triggers here on AppleInsider. I’d even be okay with Apple coding the severity of updates using some sort of model, like red (immediate), yellow (at your earliest convenience), blue (optional) - or some other scheme. 

I don’t care how Apple does it, but I’d vastly prefer to get important information about updates directly from Apple rather than anyone else. If I have to subscribe to notifications via iMessage and/or Mail, no problem. This should not be a technical limitation. I get notices from Apple when an artist in my Music library releases a new single or album, so why not get a notification when my device needs a security update? 

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I guess Apple does a poor job of publicizing it, but they have a security announcement mailing list: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce/ .