alt Hacker NewsI don't know about worse. Imagine a world where there is no OS authority, each app does their own. Do you think all important apps would be updated in 10 days, including auto-updates?
Apple fucked this up, but I really don't think the situation is "as bad if not worse" than if MacOS just didn't do this.
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Isn't that the world that Docker gives us, basically?
> Imagine a world where there is no OS authority, each app does their own.
That's the world we live in now thanks to Google and Mozilla.
It makes no sense to imagine this hypothetical scenario and compare it to reality, you have to imagine a similar world with a OS authority, but it only gets updated every 6 months. Which is worse in the worse case? I'd say the one with the lower blast radius.
But this abstract exercise is only to highlight the importance of Apple getting its shit together, because such a scenario exists with Windows and the culture of downloading exes and msis and it's honestly way worse than having a central but responsible authority.
> Apple fucked this up, but I really don't think the situation is "as bad if not worse" than if MacOS just didn't do this.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555