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Only for security vulnerabilities that "Apple is aware may have been actively exploited". And almost never for any bug fixes (and sadly, Apple now tends to push off bug fixes to the next major release/"n+1" rather than fix bugs in the major version in which they were introduced).


> Only for security vulnerabilities that "Apple is aware may have been actively exploited"

That still leaves a perfectly adequate machine for most common uses.


Would you be fine with your family running a vulnerable, insecure machine for everything, including communication with you?


I don't understand why I'm downvoted. I don't think it's acceptable to keep a machine with known vulnerabilities "not yet actively exploited" for "most common uses". The defense of Apple here goes too far.


They also support updating Safari for 2 versions back of macOS.




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