Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates

Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by peterburkimsher on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:04PM (#25463714)

Working offline is actually quite important. The download size is over 4 GB for the combo updater, even just for a point release. In this case, the Internet connection was fast enough, but in many places in the world it would take hours longer to download that (10 MBps at my parents' house, 250 KBps in Kiribati where I travelled last year).

It's also good to not need to connect to the App Store, with all the 2FA involved. That would associate my Apple account with that computer, and save my password in the keychain. (Yes, I know I can delete it, but I want to leave the migration running overnight and just tell the user to reboot when it's done).

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by tmd83 on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:50AM (#25464518)

I have had low bandwidth for most of my life and apple update has been a pain for the huge size of even point update. I actually haven't used offline download.

My biggest pain point was that the downloader portion of the updater is so low quality. It corrupts downloads or restarts with tiny network blips, can't resume most of the time and often much slower to download than available bandwidth (that might a bad routing issue on my country). Overall it's often a painful experience.

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