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> Why does it seem like there's no real oversight on macOS development anymore?

It may seem like that, but don't forget 15 years ago Mac OS X 10.3 erased external FireWire drives.

http://kottke.org/03/10/important-glitch-in-apples-panther-e...

https://web.archive.org/web/20031202034911/http://www.apple....

> external

An upgrade to the beloved 10.6 could potentially outright rm -rf your home dir. I was unaffected but it did make me retrospectively shiver when I learned about that bug post-upgrade.

Still, the frequency of those goofups seems to be getting worse, possibly amplified by the growing expectations in what looks like to be an increasingly hostile digital environment.

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