alt Hacker NewsYes because other operating systems never have a decade old vulnerability?
https://www.sysdig.com/blog/detecting-cve-2024-1086-the-deca...
And yes because their UI folks should be spending time on the kernel. What next? If Apple didn’t have so many people working at the Genius Bar they could use some of those people to fix security vulnerabilities?
Are you suggesting that money spent on marketing - to the extent that it doesn't actually increase market share/sales - couldn't be spent on hardening or vulnerability payouts, etc?
Apple doesn't have unlimited money. It all gets allocated somewhere. Allocating it in places that don't improve security or usability or increase sales is, in this sense, a wasted opportunity that could be more efficiently allocated elsewhere.