Stop Apple from notifying me to upgrade Sequoia to Tahoe

"but it does demonstrate the folly of market dominance...” “lack of free and fair competition"

Apple has no market dominance in anything, especially the PC market where Apple has maybe 15%. Just today it was announced that iPhone has reached 20% marketshare worldwide. Where is this dominance you throw around? As for free and fair competition what does that even mean in term of macOS? And don't start with the tripe claim that macOS is its own market which Apple has a monopoly on. And by the way you can run the latest Linux distro if you’re not happy with Apple choices. You own the hardware, that’s all. It’s plain and simple to me. Apple wants its users to be as fully up to date as possible to prevent security and privacy issues. Apple has the right to promote its software whether you like it or not.

But I do know one thing. If you had the option to stop all notifications, never updated, and got nailed by a security flaw, who would you blame? Certainly not yourself, right?

3mstrrktek7 wrote:

Yes, well, we "End Users" pay their salaries and bills with the products we buy from them!!! So, in essence, we End Users are their employers and generally it is thought that employees should listen to what their "bosses" want them to do!!!! Just saying ......

Actually, their employers are their shareholders. Just saying....

Hi ikrupp

You said in part:

But I do know one thing. If you had the option to stop all notifications, never updated, and got nailed by a security flaw, who would you blame? Certainly not yourself, right?

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If someone exploits a "security flaw" I, as I would expect you would, blame the person who exploited the flaw no one else.

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Its a 'take it or leave it' deal as far as the OS is concerned.

Owl-53 wrote:

Servant of Cats wrote:

Owl-53 wrote:

As we well know

Apple Owns the Operating System.

We " End Users " are just riding along with what Apple decides is what Apple believes is " best " for use, even if we disagree