Quoted from the http://tidbits.com/article/17633: "If you're running macOS 10.12 Sierra or earlier, and do not want to upgrade to 10.13 High Sierra right now, be careful because Apple has started pushing High Sierra to older Macs and making it all too easy to upgrade inadvertently." [...]
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:02AM (4 children)
Are they using the same tactics as Microsoft did with Windows 10? Did they not learn anything?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:46AM
This is inaccurate. High Sierra only prompts to install the OS update if both the "Automatcally download updates in the background" and "Install OS updates" are selected in the system settings.
When prompted you have to click "Install" for the OS update to be installed. It is not the Windows 10 "Hey, look, a shiny red X that actually installs an OS".
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:43PM
No. I'm not overjoyed by the way they casually promote major OS updates to possibly non-tech-savvy users (we all know who has to pick up the pieces) but the way Apple do it it is only going to catch the compulsive clickers (in which case the installation will probably be blocked by all the malware and "purify my Mac" apps they've already installed).
Its pretty clear what the "Upgrade" button is going to do. None of this MS-style "Don't click 'Yes I Do Don't Want It' if you don't wish to reject the opportunity to not decline this upgrade" malarkey.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Knowledge Troll on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:49PM (1 child)
What would they learn exactly? That most of the people will roll over and cave and do it anyway?
There wasn't any real fallout from the Windows 10 rollout.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:50AM
Imagine if I did what Microsoft did and upgraded strangers PCs to windows 10 against their owners wishes. How many years in jail would I get.
Or what if I made and spread crapware that would show a dialog box that sometimes installed it if you clicked OK and at other times installed it if you clicked the X to close it. Would that be legal?