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points by thenewnewguy 1 day ago | 0 comments

All of that is Apple's fault - they designed and created MacOS. It's not like they're publishing to a third party platform.

Why would I judge Apple only on the quality of this docs page (which is good) but not on their poor work that resulted in this situation in the first place?

[–] LoganDark 1 day ago

This is a legacy BSD store that macOS inherited. Apple has their own security stack that already responded to the incident within 2 hours in most cases, which means all first-party and most third-party apps were already covered. They seemingly just didn't have a mechanism to update the legacy BSD store out-of-band, which is more of an oversight than "poor work".

[–] thenewnewguy 1 day ago

Apple created and designed the update system for their operating system from scratch. The fact it doesn't include the ability to update a security-critical file quickly is entirely their fault.

Most (if not all) of the popular BSDs managed to ship the update ages ago. I would expect a trillion dollar company like Apple to have better and more thoughtful engineering than random volunteer projects.

[–] LoganDark 17 hours ago

> Apple created and designed the update system for their operating system from scratch. The fact it doesn't include the ability to update a security-critical file quickly is entirely their fault.

Sure. It's not their fault for failing now to use a capability that doesn't exist, though. I feel like the difference is lost on some people, but they're already in this situation.

[–] antiframe 1 day ago

They didn't inherit it. They chose it. If you choose to build on something, you should support it, and support it well.