Apple have long had a love-hate relationship with ...
Anonymous · 2011-03-01T07:13:44.663000
Apple have long had a love-hate relationship with their fans. As a company, they seem to absolutely *hate* losing control of the PR message, so they overreact massively to even the slightest hint of a leak.
Their fans, however, are just keen to hear any info they can about upcoming moves Cupertino is considering, so the incentive to leak is quite large.
I see it as somewhat similar to the handling of "responsible disclosure" with security flaws. If an organisation has a reputation for fixing and then announcing flaws promptly themselves after being given a private notification, that further encourages advance notice of other flaws that are discovered. If a company has a history of not doing anything until a bug is announced publicly, then security researchers will learn that the quickest way to get a response from them it to just announce the flaw in public and let them scramble to fix it.
I'm very curious what you found in Windows to ...
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe · 2011-03-08T15:47:48.266000
I'm very curious what you found in Windows to justify the statement 'I think that Mac OS X is actually in some ways inferior to Windows.'
Context: I don't care for these 2 platforms, being a Debian fanboy.
Apple have long had a love-hate relationship with ...
Anonymous · 2011-03-01T07:13:44.663000
Apple have long had a love-hate relationship with their fans. As a company, they seem to absolutely *hate* losing control of the PR message, so they overreact massively to even the slightest hint of a leak.Their fans, however, are just keen to hear any info they can about upcoming moves Cupertino is considering, so the incentive to leak is quite large.
I see it as somewhat similar to the handling of "responsible disclosure" with security flaws. If an organisation has a reputation for fixing and then announcing flaws promptly themselves after being given a private notification, that further encourages advance notice of other flaws that are discovered. If a company has a history of not doing anything until a bug is announced publicly, then security researchers will learn that the quickest way to get a response from them it to just announce the flaw in public and let them scramble to fix it.
I'm very curious what you found in Windows to ...
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe · 2011-03-08T15:47:48.266000
I'm very curious what you found in Windows to justify the statement 'I think that Mac OS X is actually in some ways inferior to Windows.'Context: I don't care for these 2 platforms, being a Debian fanboy.
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