- Apple hasn't officially said anything about this. The linked rantpost is verklempt because it's been 4 weeks since the release of a major OS revision supporting a new processor architecture and a standalone installer hasn't been provided (yet).

And here are his given arguments for the Collapse of American Way and Civilization in General if this situation continues:

- It's hard to reinstall Safari.

This basically happens ... never. I've been running OS X since the beta and have never had to reinstall Safari.

- It would make it difficult to recreate a specific point release in the future.

This is valid, but also a rare use case and this doesn't prevent you from doing it, you just have to apply the incrementals from Apple.

- It would eliminate "An effective panacea for some system problems."

I think I applied a combo update to fix some hosed up printer drivers after an HP update screwed the pooch one time but I could have just loaded an earlier version. This goes into the general category of "zapping the PRAM" to fix issues which originated from a real problem this actually corrected 20 years ago and morphed into a mystical incantation to utter when you have no idea wtf is wrong with the computer and don't feel like praying the rosary over it.

Quote from the thread

"Apple finally has shown their true colours and no form of hardware or software advancement will push me to use their products. Can you imagine the world without Linux or BSD alternatives? What a nightmare."