[reaperducer]

> I doubt anyone at Apple would be silly enough to allow software on an unannounced OS to freely send out analytic data

...and you'd be wrong. It is very common for Apple to test its new browser versions on the public internet and for those version numbers to show up in the logs of popular Apple web sites. It's one of the ways that Think Secret could confirm that a new version was on the way.

[philwelch]

Besides, what does a version number reveal? “Oh, Apple is working on a new OS version!” You don’t say??

[0x0]

Certainly not much if anything at all, but it's mildly interesting to note that it identifies as 10.14 and not, say, 11.0.

Anyways there is surely something strange brewing for the next macOS, as Apple has repeatedly noted that "macOS High Sierra will be the last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromise", without specifying what kind of "compromise" might come up (see https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06282017a )

[lewisinc]

I think you might be reading that wrong - should be "Without compromise, macOS will discontinue support for 32-bit apps". The only compromise should be not upgrading to 10.14 and staying on 10.13.

[0x0]

Maybe. It's an odd phrasing. Why not just say "will not run"? How do you run 32bit apps "WITH compromise"? In a VM window?

[Crontab]

Think Secret? Wow, that takes me back.