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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur With Fresh Design, Control Center, Safari Privacy Report, Messages Updates, Maps Overhaul and More

Maconplasma said:
Oh really? Try buying the PS5 today. The servers on Amazon have been next to dead. And the amount of money a company has cannot control the amount of people smashing the servers. Please use some logic. 🙄
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Odd. I got into Amazon to look at it just fine. Stock is another matter. In fact, I ordered some stuff from Amazon earlier today and had zero problem.

Try to use some logic? Amazon's daily internet throughput is even more than Apple's. Amazon Prime video, Kindle, Audible, sales, music streaming all run well through their servers, despite millions of people doing it at once.

Logic isn't the problem, sycophancy is for some people when it comes to Apple.
 
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Maconplasma said:
Oh really? Try buying the PS5 today. The servers on Amazon and Walmart have been next to dead when they were available. So Amazon just says "Currently Unavailable" to relieve themselves of the pressure. And the amount of money a company has cannot control the amount of people smashing the servers. Please use some logic. 🙄
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By the way, that's not why is says "currently unavaiable", It says that because no one has stock of it and they arent taking backorders. Since you can buy PS5s from a ton of places, Amazon hardly needs to play tricks like that.
 
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k.alexander said:
So came across this, thoughts?
https://twitter.com/x/status/1327023082448560129
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Done downloading, here's the hashes:
md5 InstallAssistant.pkg: 0030d26c6e5d01b7aa10a91b044d6ca7
shasum -a 256 InstallAssistant.pkg: ae026c7cc877689749f4ed9b516f77db2248b81888ca862bf9031105f2bc813d

Does anyone have the original file and could to the same so we can move on with installing this if it is genuine?

Thanks to the uploader by the way, really fast CDN.
 
whsbuss said:
So you didn't get the error message when you clicked the Update button?
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Yes I did, but I dared to click the package that I'd downloaded, the one that somebody said couldn't be downloaded... and now (drum roll)

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Rafterman said:
Odd. I got into Amazon to look at it just fine. Stock is another matter. In fact, I ordered some stuff from Amazon earlier today and had zero problem.

Try to use some logic? Amazon's daily internet throughput is even more than Apple's. Amazon Prime video, Kindle, Audible, sales, music streaming all run well through their servers, despite millions of people doing it at once.

Logic isn't the problem, sycophancy is for some people when it comes to Apple.
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Ah, thanks for this post because everything you stated makes zero sense based on the subject matter. Yeah all those products that are sold on Amazon daily are not ONE product being purchased by thousands of people at the same time. Furthermore people making purchases on Amazon are done at different times throughout the day. The Big Sur download is happening every microsecond of today. Apple also has thousands of downloads from the App Store and their servers run very well. Why? Because the same apps aren't being downloaded the exact same time from thousands of people. Try again.
 
Here's a strange one.... so under /Library/Updates there is a directory and two .plist files. Even as root it will not allow me to delete/remove them. What gives?
 
Maconplasma said:
Ah so if you expect that from an ALMOST trillion dollar company then what do you expect of a company with over 2 trillion? 🙄
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FYI Apple is not an over 2 trillion dollar company as of now, so let’s say I’d expect about the same. But also, I’ve been at my computer, disappointed that I won’t get the update today. But it’ll happen tomorrow or the next day so there really isn’t any reason to complain. Things happen that are out of even an almost 2 trillion dollar company’s hands. Rest assured, they will eventually fix it.
 
Rafterman said:
By the way, that's not why is says "currently unavaiable", It says that because no one has stock of it and they arent taking backorders. Since you can buy PS5s from a ton of places, Amazon hardly needs to play tricks like that.
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Thanks for cherrypicking the argument and leaving out Walmart who is also a company worth over half a billion. Funny how their servers can't handle people buying a $500 game console but you expect Apple to have zero issues for a operating system download that is free.
 
406Adventureman said:
FYI Apple is not an over 2 trillion dollar company as of now, so let’s say I’d expect about the same. But also, I’ve been at my computer, disappointed that I won’t get the update today. But it’ll happen tomorrow or the next day so there really isn’t any reason to complain. Things happen that are out of even an almost 2 trillion dollar company’s hands. Rest assured, they will eventually fix it.
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Well Apple certainly isn't worth ALMOST a trillion dollars either.
 
Maconplasma said:
Ah, thanks for this post because everything you stated makes zero sense based on the subject matter. Yeah all those products that are sold on Amazon daily are not ONE product being purchased by thousands of people at the same time. Furthermore people making purchases on Amazon are done at different times throughout the day. The Big Sur download is happening every microsecond of today. Apple also has thousands of downloads from the App Store and their servers run very well. Why? Because the same apps aren't being downloaded the exact same time from thousands of people. Try again.
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Maconplasma said:
Ah, thanks for this post because everything you stated makes zero sense based on the subject matter. Yeah all those products that are sold on Amazon daily are not ONE product being purchased by thousands of people at the same time. Furthermore people making purchases on Amazon are done at different times throughout the day. The Big Sur download is happening every microsecond of today. Apple also has thousands of downloads from the App Store and their servers run very well. Why? Because the same apps aren't being downloaded the exact same time from thousands of people. Try again.
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Its not WHAT is being downloaded, its total throughput and Amazon rivals Apple. Apple doesn't store content on just ONE access point, and its clear their infrastructure can't handle it. Maybe f people held Apple to task more often, instead of worshiping at their feet, Apple would be more motivated to improve their services.

Learn how content distribution works. Your Amazon PS5 comment proves that (I tried to get McDonalds coffee grounds once and it said "unavailable" - did Amazon worry about coffee lovers flooding their system?). That is all I have to say on this matter.
 
whsbuss said:
Here's a strange one.... so under /Library/Updates there is a directory and two .plist files. Even as root it will not allow me to delete/remove them. What gives?
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You must to disable csrutil doing that:
restart in recovery mode (press cmd + R on boot)
go to the Utility/Terminal
Run: csrutil disable

Reboot again and try do delete files.

Disclaimer: I've done the same above and got no success =/
 
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