Apple To Review Software Practices After Patching Serious Mac Bug (reuters.com)

Apple said on Wednesday it would review its software development process after scrambling to patch a serious bug it learned of on Tuesday in its macOS operating system for desktop and laptop computers. From a report: "We greatly regret this error and we apologize to all Mac users, both for releasing with this vulnerability and for the concern it has caused," Apple said in a statement. "Our customers deserve better. We are auditing our development processes to help prevent this from happening again."

Comments

Re:Slashdot problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Groan.... The typical "it 'is never apples fault"

Re:Open source

[Rob Y.]

Do you really think there's that much demand for MacOS these days? Back in the day when Windows was utter crap and MacOS had features Windows didn't, sure, there was a market for cheap MacOS clones. But these days, people buy Mac's mostly because they're Apple people, or perceive it as some kind of status thing.

Anybody interested enough to make a MacOS build for generic hardware is already using Linux - or can get by quite well on Windows these days. I'd bet that at this point there's more of a market for Linux support on Mac hardware than there is for MacOS on generic hardware.