Why does Apple do this? Is it because Apple wants full control on what is allowed to be installed or not on a Mac?
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'Every dog has their day' although blind luck may have something to do with it. 🐭
And when you think, back then, downloads were mostly slower and there is much more infrastructure now... yet we're still struggling to download an OS all this time later. Most console/PC games have updates bigger than this! Look at CoD for example...
Yes, Apple wants control because Apple knows what is best for all of us.
Officially it's for security. But actually.. I'm sure that's also a reason. They can theoretically block every third party app if they want. And for those who don't know how to block the requests, they cannot use those apps anymore. It's actually quite frightening that this is a thing. But actually... not surprising at all from Apple.
They're probably planning to lock down the mac as they did with the iPad/iPhone.
Couple months ago, Microsoft had a major outage. I guess it is Apple's turn.
The Panic Twitter account just said: “This issue now appears to be resolved. Please enjoy our Nova and Transmit updates! (And to the Apple engineers who undoubtedly just had one heck of a wild day: thank you for your service)” (“This issue” referred to the whole issue with the Apple servers checking app loads.)
Apple's Gatekeeper issues might have slowed down your Mac earlier
Apple server issues might have slowed down apps on your Mac at about 4PM ET.
www.engadget.com
I'm seeing the same thing and dug in a bit deeper. Getting a TCP Denied from a23-194-213-143.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com which has me wondering if akamai hasn't finished replicating the update to all its warehouses.
Footloose"Dancing is forbidden!"
See if anyone gets that reference
can't wait to activate my iPhone 12 pro max tomorrow...
Maybe. But I don't remember. It was from Master Shake in Aqua Teen Hunger Force
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the credits theme consists of Shake's quote, "Dancing is forbidden" being remixed to the opening theme's instrumental.
Perhaps I've been sleeping at the wheel but, you have it and can't activate it until tomorrow?
Because it install the original OS your mac came with ....
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How many system administrators does it take to screw up the most anticipated upgrade of the year?
