I'm assuming this came up in reference to this post from yesterday:
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...
To be completely honest, the joke is getting a little bit old. They could at least update the graphic. But Windows has not been that crashy since Windows ME.
Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default.
The real joke is Apple shipping a buggy, DIY'd version of SMB because they ditched Samba over some GPL3 quibble, and they abandoned AFP. Meanwhile, Microsoft is still the reference implementation of SMB...
I assume the icons are still there because there is nobody left at Apple that knows how they got there and where the code is that controls it.
The issue there is that Apple collects just about as much telemetry on end users. I'm unsure how much data either give or sell to third parties.
And I don't mean just as a branding that "normal people" (ones who aren't interested in or involved with tech) believe
They even manage to sell it to people who know how things work behind the curtain!
I have had people I once respected that are as deep into the weeds of technology as I am ask me, point blank to my face. "Can you prove it?" when I snark that things like iCloud in China are obviously backdoored. This was before they bent the knee to the UK as well [1]
Is there something in the water for Apple users?
If Chinese authorities demanded physical access to the data there is nothing Apple can do to stop them. There is no proof that Apple provides credible security to these users and no historical audits that suggest they can.
[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/business/apple-china-data...
Two things can be bad, you know :)
Secondly, yes, especially if it's OneDrive. Both iCloud and OneDrive are first-party software products, they are built-into their respective operating systems as native features. If BitLocker was compromised, it would be a "Windows backdoor" too.
Which American companies do you imagine are immune to American warrants or National Security Letters?
What does a BSOD look like these days? That one is from the pre-XP era. No NT-based OS used that screen.
Windows was still crashy, most frequently due to poorly written drivers.
What changed was that Microsoft altered the default setting so that Windows silently rebooted the computer when it crashed instead of displaying the BSOD information on what caused the crash until the system was manually rebooted.