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Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com)
Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers? That surely made a lot of people furious. Today, Apple told The Loop that it will also begin automatic download of its latest desktop operating system update, macOS Sierra on Macs that are compatible with the new software -- provided, automatic downloads are switched on and the Mac has enough storage space. From the report: t's important to note that this is not an automatic installer -- this process will only download the update in the background, and then alert you that it is available to install. You can choose to install it when its convenient. You can also choose to ignore the update. [...] Of course, you can manually delete the download if you don't wish to upgrade, and you can choose to manually download the update from the App Store at any time.
If this bothers you, please a bug report to Apple. I've been complaining about automatic update downloading / alerts on iOS for a year, and they finally closed my bug report with a 'works as designed' excuse.
This process is a disk hogging interruption. If you agree, please complain in the one place where it matters.
Upgrade your MacBook now for 25% less battery life and a slower overall experience!
An announcement on the front page of GPGTools.org: "IMPORTANT: GPGMail, our plugin for securing emails using GPG in Mail.app is not yet compatible with macOS Sierra. If you rely on GPGMail, please refrain from updating to macOS Sierra for the time being!" This is kind of important to me, so...
"Normal" updates I would normally accept to have, because they're typically small (<100MB), but this thing is nearly 5GB. Some of us have data caps.
But of course, with everybody at Apple being super-rich, they don't bother to think about these things, and just assume everybody can afford whatever GB's-worth of stuff they want to push on us.
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"Normal" updates I would normally accept to have, because they're typically small (
Then why would you have turned on automatic updates again?
Remember that is a setting that YOU YOURSELF WITH YOUR OWN HANDS have to enable. If I cared specifically about bandwidth I would not have that enabled... even if the general expectation was somewhat low numbers you never know as over time apps may update often which would mean a lot of downloads.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm 100% done with Apple. I'll run Mint on a shitbox Dell if they really try this crap.
"Apple downgrades users' disks by 10GB"
TFTFY
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Windows 10 update was a "Recommended Update" and not an optional one.
Windows 10 changed the dialog box so that users had to specifically opt out of installing Windows 10.
Windows 10 installed itself without warning.
MacOS Sierra downloads if "Automatic Downloads" is enabled.
Does not install automatically
Users can ignore the download and not install
Having worked with OS X machines, this behavior isn't new. As I remember that as far back as Mavericks that it downloaded only if Automatic Downloads was enabled. And it asked for permission to install. Before that, the new OS X showed up as a notification and that you had to run Apple Update to get it.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
What a stupid lot!
"Disable auto updates then!" - thereby disabling security updates? Wow, so smart!
"You bought an expensive machine - you deserve whatever shit they throw down your throat!" Mmmm, yummy!
Yes, because we should all make it as hard as possible to get security updates
Turning on automatic updates *doesn't install them either* you numskull, they would just be downloaded... what is so hard about downloading them when you see them? Until you are living in a hut in Alaska and you only go into town once a week for the internet, that should not be an issue or delay you from updating in any way whatsoever.
This whole article is just the most absurd thing to complain about I have ever seen.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I tried filing a radar a while back, stating all Apple employees were idiots. It got closed as 'Reproducible' but no fix.
Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers? That surely made a lot of people furious.
of course... but what does that have to do with the macOS update that you can choose to ignore? surely you aren't baiting me or conflating clearly different approaches to a situation, right?
you know what does make a lot of people furious, bullshit summaries that try to bait people, exactly like this summary.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
This was my preferred method of receiving updates in Windows when I had that option, Vista, 7, 8.1, before 10 disabled the function. I don't understand why comparing a function removed from Windows in version 10 to Windows 10 makes any sense.
We expect nothing less from iSheep...
We expect nothing less from iSheep...
MOD PARENT UP.
Re: Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers?
No, I do not remember, because I'm a Mac user.
20:12 / 20:02 his Windows machine had told him it would reboot itself for an update.
The time passed and he mentioned how it hadn't restarted for that and I told him that maybe it didn't do that if one was playing a game. .. but surely enough Windows like the idiotic authoritarian knows better shit-product it is rebooted his machine and he was gone from the team. We won 16-14 and he got a two hours ban from leaving the game.
I assume one can block that behavior with enough leet / admin / group setting skills but the normal user settings don't let you do that, all you can do is set a 12 hour working period and that's it and beyond that Windows reboots whenever the fuck it wants to if it wants to. Why should you be the master of your computer after all?!
I *WISH* iOS 10 would only bug me every few weeks to install it. At least 3-4 times every day when I am unlocking my device I get that damn prompt asking for my passcode so it can install overnight!
No, but they tried a Mac out for all of three minutes at their local Best Buy store and that makes them experts.
this is precisely why many people buy macs, in three minutes you have it all figured out and you can get to work.
The best thing about Jobs was he would yell at people if he didnt like something because it sucked.
Every other CEO in the world seems to bend over to what ever BS the PR/Marketing/Shareholders think is a "good idea" (tm).
IOS 10 SUCKS, IPHONE 7 SUCKS. NOW OS X SUCKS - the best thing Apple ever did with OS X was a) get it right b) leave it alone. That went out the window with El Crapitian.
Make sure you don't need it before you update.
Yes, yes - PPTP needs to go into the trash bin - but there are devices that do not yet support L2TP or IPSEC (I'm looking at you Ubiquiti).
Does it fix SMB issues often encountered in mixed OS networks?
My Mac is too old to run Sierra... Oh, wait...
Bend over & spread 'em wide!
I had to trick Apple into upgrading to 10.12 on a 2009 Mac Pro, it seems they don't want to support old machines that leave all their current offerings in the dust. The OS still supports it of course, since a 2009 is internally identical to a supported 2010, so you can force the upgrade anyway and have a "working" system (at least as far as OS X/macOS ever works, which is barely)
Yes, iTunes comes with it... as well as a whole bunch of Apple stuff. Good thing is, none of it is adware/30 day demos/etc. It pretty much sits there quietly not bothering you. Unlike my experience with Windows 10 on my gaming rig... which keeps asking me if I want to install Office while I am in the middle of a gaming session! Then after uninstalling the "Get Office" app... only to have it reinstall after every OS update!!! WTF?! [sigh]
The post is comparing an old 2009 iMac with a SSD upgrade to a brand new Windows laptop (2015? 2016?). Yes, desktops to laptops is a an apples to oranges comparison... but you would think a 6-7 year difference would mean the laptop would come out on top.
I have 32gb RAM and 2x 2.8ghz Xeons, but my 2008 Mac Pro won't run Sierra. Why the hell not?
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
There's no comparison between this behavior and what MSFT did with Window 10. The system preferences for the App Store lets you specify whether you want automatic downloading done, automatic installation of downloaded apps, and/or automatic installation of OS/X updates (and I'm not even sure a new version of OS/X counts as an OS/X update). And by default, IIRC, it doesn't install anything. Apple leaves you in full control of when or whether the update occurs. Windows, on the other hand, did its very best to nag you to death to install Windows 10, including ignoring your attempts to say "no."
In the final days of his life, my father's ability to use his computer communications were lost in a forced Windows 10 installation. It's time we identify these forced user environment desecration and destruction what it is: VANDALISM
Mafia$oft and crApple are industrial thugs, pure and simple.