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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by scarface74 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:35PM (#21590637)
It’s not like one of Chrome’s updates completely hosed Macs....

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en

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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by greggman2 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:46AM (#21592666)
what is your point? Apple's own bugs deleted entire hard drives.

https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...

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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by scarface74 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:06AM (#21592763)
Wow. From 2001?
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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by bla3 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:41AM (#21592639)
It hosed macs that had SIP disabled and /var world-writable. Not that that's an excuse, but few machines were affected by this.
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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by scarface74 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:05AM (#21592755)
The point being that users can’t just trust apps from reputable sources. Even if not being purposefully malicious, third parties get sloppy.
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