Most importantly, don’t delay updates for the older versions of macOS. That said, given the lack of feedback offered to security researchers who take the time to submit vulnerabilities that are found, Apple’s default mode of “say as little as possible” is not serving it well in its relationship with the security community. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about in showing what has been addressed. Changelogs full of “various bug fixes and security updates” is not enough. If Android manufacturers can offer this as standard, so can Apple.Īlso be clear on what is being updated. It can talk openly and offer concrete information in how it handles the security updates.įirst of all, be incredibly clear in both the support that is being offered to older versions of macOS, and how long at a minimum this support will last for. No doubt security researchers will be looking to see if this is an isolated case or the start of a pattern, but in the meantime there is something pro-active that Apple can do. I'll fix that now.I struggle to see how Apple can reconcile this significant delay in securing its consumers computers, while it claims to offer the most secure platforms possible. The problem is that most folks are "lazy" and don't want to put the effort into a clean install.Īh, you're right- that's actually MY fault, not Roger's. I've had friends with Macs and iOS devices with slowness problems, and a clean install usually resolves the issues about 99% of the time. As much as Microsoft and Apple have tried, upgrades still never beat a clean install. This is a drastic timesaver in terms of bringing a machine up to the current OS in an easy fashion if booting from Internet recovery is required.Īs for the "slowdowns after updates", its all about the cruff. This isn't true - Macintosh Internet recovery previously installed the original operating system that shipped with the hardware - not when problems were occurring. In fact Apple has faced multiple lawsuits over the issue, arguing that company knowingly ignored compatibility issues since it could push people into buying newer hardware. With iOS, some users have complained of slowdowns after major updates. The original behavior had been in place since OS X Lion, which shipped in July 2011.
The previous recovery method, still done by hitting Command-R during startup, restores a Mac to the version of macOS/OS X that it was on before the problems started, blogger Thomas Brand noted on Thursday.
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