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FridgeSeal on Jan 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft s...

The trade off there is that Apple can then perform a major architectural shift in a single fell swoop because it’s not carrying around silly amounts of legacy cruft. Endless backwards compatibility isn’t always a benefit imo.

justapassenger on Jan 1, 2021 [–]

That works if your os is used by geeks. Doesn’t fly that well if you need solid, long term stable platform to build your solutions on top of.

Edit: typo

EricE on Jan 1, 2021 | [–]

lol - Yup, Mac's are only used by geeks. /s

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