Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fishanz 3788 days ago
I'm also really purturbed by apple's 'version ratchet' (great term btw). In my case it's the infuriation caused by the 'notifications' to upgrade ... Which you CANT DISMISS! It's either install, or 'remind me later': tonight..tomorrow, but explicitly not 'never for this version'. I've turned off notifications altogether on Yosemite. Ios9 is the icing on the cake.
2 comments
ajmurmann 3788 days ago
What about security vulnerabilities that get fixed in those updates? You don't want those?

This got us Chinese bot nets on outdated XP machines...

link
ksml 3788 days ago
Apple continues to release security patches on older versions of OS X for a while. In my case, I am on Yosemite and have not upgraded to El Capitan yet, but I have all the latest security patches.
link
grandalf 3788 days ago
This is exactly the issue. It is irresponsible for a vendor not to nudge users toward upgrading when older versions no longer make sense to support.
link
fishanz 3788 days ago
'Nudging' me to update from Yosemite to El Capitan is just annoying. It's one iteration!
link
fishanz 3788 days ago
No I totally get it about the security updates; but it's the principle that I can't opt out if my own dumb ass wants to. Ultimately I would absolutely opt-in for security updates, but they don't seem to come stand-alone. If I'm not mistaken, Apple can push critical security updates these days anyway - there's been at least one.
link
lisper 3787 days ago
> great term btw

Thanks! I was actually surprised to find that I apparently invented the term. It just seemed so obvious that I figured someone must have thought of it, but when I did a search to find some place to link to, nothing came up.

Anyway, glad you liked it :-)

link