I don’t use CDs or blu rays on my computer but I for sure use blu rays to watch films and shows. In my country you can’t watch Westworld since HBO removed it for tax reasons. I can watch it though as I own the series on blu ray!
Sad because before this, Ventura was one of the most bug free OS I've experienced alongside Big Sur. And I'm on the Mac world since El Cap.
I ripped my CDs and DVDs with handbrake. Can’t be dealing with storage of physical media anymore, there were 100s of the damn things
False. I have a apple CD player and it works great with the latest update.
If it's security, that's fine, but Apple's track record on telling us what was wrong isn't real great, and I don't expect to hear on this one either.
It's apple's driver not working with the pioneer drive...
Have you heard about Blu-Ray?
If they did, would Apple let Pioneer to write Apple's drivers?
those drive could be using some deprecated API, and Apple then removed the API. Or the driver could have been using some unsupported API that was removed due to security concerns. Not all drives stopped working, just some Pioneer drives.
Those drives are accessed by apple drivers, if they don't work it's still Apple that did the deed. Now if they came out and said it was because of security, most people, including myself wouldn't have a problem with it, but I doubt if Apple ever says. They'll either fix it with the next update, or it'll just never work again, who knows.
One can also ask why something that works fine even in 13.1 can break in 13.2, a .x update? What is Apple doing?
Apple implements the Universal Serial Bus 3.2 Specification from the USB-IF in their IOUSBHost framework. Unless Apple has done something non-standard here, then it's probably a non-compliant device that is the culprit. It would be nice if Apple pointed us in that direction with some sort of statement, but it's probably not on Apple to figure out the compliance of every device out there to the USB spec. Since it only seems to be these particular drives that are affected and not other optical drives (even from Pioneer) then I would say it's probably on Pioneer to figure out and fix.
Then why would they have a beta program? If point updates are not expected to break things unexpectedly, why have a public beta program for it? Its to actually test, catch these things so the IHV can work with Apple to at least say, we are aware of a bug that might affect Pioneer optical drives. Please either refrain from upgrading or apply this patch. Apple can't be expected to make every single thing work. Besides, other brand optical drives are working.
Using a Mac for work and installing beta software on a work computer is kind of the same thing anyhow.
You have a beta program to allow developers to start working on your code. You also have a beta program to FIX these issues before they are released in the wild. However, to your point, there's minimal point to having a beta program when your RELEASE versions are effectively acting as betas in terms of instability and quality control.
