News Apple Bundles Bitcoin Whitepaper With Every Version of MacOS Since 2018

[Admin]

Apple has been bundling the Bitcoin whitepaper with MacOS since 2018, no one knows why, but it shows OS-unrelated bloat can lay undiscovered for years.

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[PlaneInTheSky]

KolibriOS is the only OS I have on my system that isn't a bloated mess.

I still need to try ReactOS.

 

[JamesJones44]

Probably left over from some integration or unit test checked into a directory that it shouldn't be. Can't tell you how many times I've seen stuff like that from large development teams.

 

[Quirkz]

Or just as likely, a classic easter egg snuck in by a developer wanting to stick it to 'the man', in a futile protest , pretending to hold on to some integrity while continuing to collect their paycheck from poppa Tim.

 

[bahalana]

Probably left over from some integration or unit test checked into a directory that it shouldn't be. Can't tell you how many times I've seen stuff like that from large development teams.

You might be right about that, but especially at a company like Apple I'd expect it should be pretty easy to review whatever source control and logs they use for tracking development. It will be interesting if we ever get an "official" answer. In the meantime, if it's just an "easter egg", it's pretty remarkable it took five years to discover.

 

[USAFRet]

KolibriOS is the only OS I have on my system that isn't a bloated mess.

I still need to try ReactOS.

I wonder what decade React will get out of beta stage.

 

[PsychoPsyops]

Maybe Apple invested heavily in bitcoin and this was their lowkey way of promoting it so that they can make a profit.

 

[PEnns]

Maybe Apple invested heavily in bitcoin and this was their lowkey way of promoting it so that they can make a profit.

And how would they promote it if the file, I mean promotion, was thoroughly hidden and impossible to find, except by accident??