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by addandsubtract 4021 days ago
>The incentive from Apple is very strong to install 10.10

And what incentive is that? Unless you need to latest Xcode to develop iOS apps, I don't see a reason to use Yosemite. I, for one, am happy to have stayed on 10.9 and will stick with it until El Capitan proves to be an "upgrade".
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wwweston 4021 days ago
> And what incentive is that?

For one thing, they won't sell you Mavericks anymore. If you didn't buy it while it was out, it is simply unavailable for you to purchase. They obviously could sell it to you, but they won't. It's a matter of intentional policy to make sure you don't buy in at any point earlier than the current one.

(Take that in, BTW. That means someone at Apple made the judgment that it is literally more important that you have their latest than it is for everyone to have a stable, reliable OS.)

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bornabox 4021 days ago
Ah come on. Yosemite is not a stable, reliable OS? That's just hyperbole... Running 10.10.3 on half a dozen machines, mostly older ones, and it's stable, reliable and working just fine. MBPro's, Mac Mini's, MBAir, iMac.
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chiph 4021 days ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not ...

Overall OS stability has gone down with Yosemite. I have to restart far more often than I should -- usually after coming out of sleep mode.

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doublextremevil 4021 days ago
Apple refuses to fix a critical security vulnerability[0] in non-Yosemite versions of OS X

[0]https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-...

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