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Related to this, how have people found running Yosemite compared to Mavericks, performance and compatibility-wise? Are you sorry you upgraded? (I'm asking for a friend.)
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I'm having a hard time understanding whether this is an intentional backdoor or just an accident.
Smells like an oversight to me. Some new developer got assigned to implement or tweak the SSH enabling switch (or whatever), and this was their solution, which never got reviewed.
> Apple indicated that this issue required a substantial amount of changes on their side, and that they will not back port the fix to 10.9.x and older. What ? So all OS X boxes are simply broken, privileges-wise, if they're not on 10.10?
What better way to encourage people to upgrade.
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Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often. If you want solid support for old products, stick with Microsoft, and accept that their products can be clunkier because of deliberate choices to maintain backwards-compatibility.
To be fair, OS X updates are free and usually run well even on 5+ years old hardware. OS X has kinda gone the way of Chrome, with most users on the newest version.
Just because something is free doesn't make it better.
> Apple indicated that this issue required a substantial amount of changes on their side, and that they will not back port the fix to 10.9.x and older. What ? So all OS X boxes are simply broken, privileges-wise, if they're not on 10.10?
> Apple indicated that this issue required a substantial amount of changes on their side, and that they will not back port the fix to 10.9.x and older. What ? So all OS X boxes are simply broken, privileges-wise, if they're not on 10.10?
I'm having a hard time understanding whether this is an intentional backdoor or just an accident.
> Apple indicated that this issue required a substantial amount of changes on their side, and that they will not back port the fix to 10.9.x and older. What ? So all OS X boxes are simply broken, privileges-wise, if they're not on 10.10?
Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often. If you want solid support for old products, stick with Microsoft, and accept that their products can be clunkier because of deliberate choices to maintain backwards-compatibility.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're seriously concerned, why not use an external drive of some sort and install Yosemite to it? (Bonus points: clone your internal disk to it first, and upgrade that.) Boot it up, test out your critical functions, and then update your main volume if it works out for you.
Would using an external drive make it noticeably slower, making performance non-representative?
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Portable-250GB-External-MU-PS2...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often. If you want solid support for old products, stick with Microsoft, and accept that their products can be clunkier because of deliberate choices to maintain backwards-compatibility.
To be fair, OS X updates are free and usually run well even on 5+ years old hardware. OS X has kinda gone the way of Chrome, with most users on the newest version.
I was surprised just how well it's working tbh.