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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.

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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.

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.

Or their security team is understaffed because of evil emergent greedy behavior of the company.

Yep this is the reason. Monterrey probably has 10X as many people on it.

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.

I was talking about developers, not users.

Not all theories deserve equal weighting.

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.

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

* Taking extra time for a stable fix

* Rushing out a patch that introduces possible instability

Which action do you think is better for business?

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.

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.

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