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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by rgovostes on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:20PM (#25462292)
It is reducing the number of supported configurations that need to be tested, which reduces the cost of shipping software updates. It seems to go hand in hand with making the root filesystem read-only. Users tend to be happy when their system is reliable.

Perhaps this is incrementally progressing towards constant security updates like Chrome has had for some time.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by amelius on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:24PM (#25462715)
> Users tend to be happy when their system is reliable.

Reliability is only one axis. Focus too much on one aspect, and increasingly fewer people will be happy.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by bredren on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:08PM (#25463742)
Security is another.

If the last week has been any indicator, this property of software product value is very hard to provide and its value greatly underestimated.

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