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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by fishanz on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:58PM (#10993199)
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.
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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by ajmurmann on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:25AM (#10993662)
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This got us Chinese bot nets on outdated XP machines...

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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by ksml on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:11AM (#10993786)
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.
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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by grandalf on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:57AM (#10993754)
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.
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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by fishanz on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:15AM (#10993803)
'Nudging' me to update from Yosemite to El Capitan is just annoying. It's one iteration!
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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by fishanz on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:14AM (#10993800)
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.
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Re:Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet by lisper on Friday January 29, 2016 @03:46AM (#10994218)
> 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 :-)

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