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		toyg on April 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't insta... Every year, new tablets and/or phones have to be ready for Black Monday and Christmas. Every year, the phone OS has to keep up with new tablets and/or phones. Every year, the laptop OS has to keep up with the phone OS. That's basically it. At Apple, where the phone goes, everything else follows.

p_l on April 13, 2020 [–]

And for image reasons, it must be "major" release instead of minor release for hw support (like many commercial OSes did in the past, I think even macOS)

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