Apple makes incredible hardware and could easily be the best development machine on the market. But I ultimately prefer Linux because I own the maintenance story and it's simple + fast. System packages and xcode are horrible experiences, and there's no reason for this to be the case in 2026.

Shallow or misguided criticisms of Apple—of which there are countless—get shredded on this website. This is not a shallow or misguided criticism of Apple. It is clearly and obviously unacceptable.

Better luck next time.

> Apple gets a free pass on this website. … But instead the Apple fanboys will be out in force to tell us why actually its a good thing for Apple to leave parts of the OS insecure.

I have no idea how you've come to this conclusion, and clearly nothing of the sort is actually going on here.

It has the davantage that you can finally find out what those apps are sending back home, including your private data.

I’m somewhat of an Apple fanboy, and I find this absolutely unacceptable.

We clearly just don't know what complex level security Apple has put into their OS. Clearly their OS isn't vulnerable or else they would patch it! (/s)