For a lot of people, Safari is now frozen in time. Without any specific announcement, it is now clear that one ONLY gets bug fixes to it by paying the yearly upgrade price for an OS upgrade. i.e. someone who may have paid for Jaguar 6 months ago but does not have the wherewithall to pay again is stuck on the original release. No bug fixes, no security updates, no corrections to ANY flaws that happen to be in the version that runs in the Jaguar series of OS releases. This is pretty much the exact same behavior that was a central piece of the monopoly case against MS.
Mac users took endless glee castigated them... now the shoe is exactly on the other foot. When Mac users voice their objections to this policy from Cupertino, the "apple can do no wrong" contingent start getting nasty. The "objectors" intelligence is questioned, their reading comprehension is challenged... etc. It fractures the users apart, and that just ain't good for the platform at all.
While I can grudgingly accept that too many are willing to succumb to this policy, I can NOT accept the large amounts of personal attacks on me in trying to convince others that this policy is ultimately very, very bad for the platform in general. I now have a more sour taste in my mouth for my fellow Mac users... makes me feel that it just isn't worth the uphill battle is always seems to be for those who do not choose the wintel platform.
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