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Comment by chmars | Hacker News Reader

It should be a given that Apple provides a fix for OS X as soon as possible. On the other hand, it is telling that Apple gave priority to iOS.

(Although priority is relative even for iOS. We have many iOS devices in the family and not a single one had asked to install the fix until yesterday evening. The fix, however, was available after a manually initiated update check.)

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> On the other hand, it is telling that Apple gave priority to iOS.

Maybe not. It could just be that OSX has a higher testing effort. There is a bigger spread of versions across the OSX platform than iOS. And also Apple does have quite a few hardware specific builds of OSX they need to test.

Still completely unacceptable though.

I find this hard to believe. After using 10.8 and 10.9 over the last year, the sheer number of bugs is embarrassingly high. Every day, something was breaking for me. They have a serious QA problem i.e. they're either doing it wrong or not at all.

On OS X, only Mavericks is affected (10.8 is fine), which should reduce the number of software SKUs affected. Although their insistence on making it free & compatible with as many Macs as possible does mean around 46% of all Macs in use today are affected.

Honestly, iOS got it first because it's used by more people. And it's been clear for the last few years that Apple doesn't have two proper teams working on each OS. Which is ridiculous for a company of Apple's size.

In their defense, there are far more iOS devices out there than Macs.

So Oracle, Google and Microsoft get burned when something like this happens, but Apple gets excused?! Typical.

A comparable situation would be Microsoft patching 7 & 8 desktops before patching Surface because there's many more PCs than Surfaces out there.

I'm not saying it's a great move, but if you're going to prioritize, doesn't it make sense to start with what you know will protect the most users ?

I don't think there are many shared resources at Apple between the iOS and OSX teams, at least as would be doing OS updates to fix this.

So Oracle, Google and Microsoft have a larger install base of their mobile OSes compared to their desktop OSes?

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