Re: Non-issue if I've ever seen one...
Compared to Windows 10 and the multiple updates it has had to pull because of breaking machines I think this is a non-story....
I'm no eulogiser for Microsoft, but it's worth noting that Windows is a general purpose operating system, designed to work on a wide variety of hardware, for multiple manufacturers, at multiple levels of performance, and MacOs is written to run on a tightly controlled set of hardware.
You woudln't expect, for instance, a change to an undocumented API to break a third-party driver for a disk controller, graphics card, BIOS chipset, USB root hub, built-in camera, etc. etc. in a situation where you know all the hardware variations, and can test against them all.
Apple's approach of a tightly-controlled ecosystem should mean that "it just works". It also means that you get a lot less flexibility in what you can use and how you can use it, and you are locked in to what Apple dictates to a greater degree than you would be with another OS. Microsoft aren't entirely innocent when it comes to trying to lock users into their ecosystem either. Guess what? I'm not a fan of that, whoever is doing it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
