macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported

Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by sneak on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:14AM (#37205979)

There were no online internet updates during the 68k to PPC or the PPC to Intel transition periods. Additionally, the 68k to PPC transition happened when Apple used a totally different OS, with a different application file format (hfs dual fork file, vs .app directory bundle).

I am not sure how much of that really applies here, this seems like a simple arithmetic bug.

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by fredoralive on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:40AM (#37206481)

There were online updates during the PPC to Intel era, even later versions of classic Mac OS (circa Mac OS 9) had some online update capabilities.

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by xattt on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:58AM (#37206593)

Why do people think that the late 1990s and early 2000s were some sort of times of computer barbarism?

Yes, the unwashed masses were just getting past the nerd factor of the Internet, but it wasn’t that bad for software distribution.

The experience of using a mobile phone, on the other hand, was brutal. If you wanted to get a new feature enabled on your device, you’d only be able to take it to a retail outlet of your phone provider.

My specific examples were (1) getting a firmware update on a Nokia 6188 to enable access to the 800 MHz band of the provider’s then-restructured CDMA network; and (2) same for a CDMA Blackberry to enable EVDO data.

Eg: http://www.arcxsites.shh.net/Nokia6188.htm

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by cudder on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:19AM (#37207087)

Yeah, and the mobile phone experience didn't really get any better for quite some time. I bought a Nokia N8 in 2010 while abroad, and I had to take it to a retail outlet afterwards to install a new keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard.

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by wtallis on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:22AM (#37208496)

> Additionally, the 68k to PPC transition happened when Apple used a totally different OS, with a different application file format (hfs dual fork file, vs .app directory bundle).

What? The 68k to PPC transition was from 1994 to 1998 (versions 7.1.2 to 8.1). The NeXTSTEP-derived Mac OS X (which uses .app bundles rather than resource forks) was released in 2001; though there were betas and developer releases as early as 1997, the OS transition is still distinct from the 68k to PPC transition and there were quite a few PPC-only releases of the pre-OS X Mac OS.

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by daneel_w on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:57AM (#37208929)

>"There were no online internet updates during the 68k to PPC or the PPC to Intel transition periods."

There certainly were during the PPC to Intel transition. This happened in 2005 with "Tiger", and at that time OS X had already been receiving updates over the Internet since quite some time.

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