This is unacceptable

[Galdorf]

Wow i would expect windows to have alot of bugs due to the diversity of hardware but Mac had a few customers with this issue companies are cutting corners to save money and use your data to make money it is getting sad.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...update-causes-some-macs-to-become-unbootable/

 

[overburnz]

There are lots of factors that could cause this, I have upgraded quite a few MacBooks and no issues at the moment

 

[carmen617]

I make a lot of money doing MacOS upgrades - people call me all the time with 3-4 year old Macs on their original version of the OS, and I tell them it's a lot safer to have it upgraded by a pro than to do it themselves. I do a time machine backup on each system, upgrade the OS, make sure their photos and mail is working and delete any dead app icons, etc, as a clean up step. This type of publicity from Apple is just money in the bank for me.

 

[sapphirescales]

I make a lot of money doing MacOS upgrades

They upgrade automatically now, so don't count on this being a recurring source of revenue. Even if people don't WANT to upgrade to the latest version, Apple pushes it to their machine anyways.

 

[timeshifter]

OS updates can bork any system. I had a Windows Update kill the BIOS on a Dell laptop. Eventually got it back but even Dell said they thought the system was defective. I posted about it here.

I had a Mac OS upgrade make a computer unbootable last year. Turns out that the hard drive was failing.

In the article the one user who's system was truly broken was provided pictures of corrosion on the motherboard. Also stated that most of the others were able to recover.

A lot of FUD.

 

[nlinecomputers]

A lot of FUD.

+100

 

[britechguy]

+100

Yup. Also a perfect example of an outlier being used as though it were anything near to the norm.

S**t happens, occasionally. And in most cases where it does, my oft-self-quoted dictum applies: Most Computer Issues Are Idiosyncratic – Not Global