Apple hardly has 100% control over the hardware or software people may use. Apple has control over their own hardware and software. For example I own several Wacom tablets. When purchased their drivers worked with the Apple hardware and OS at the time they were sold. Does this mean they will work forever with whatever hardware and software changes that will inevitably come? Of course not. They will have to rewrite the drivers to adapt to the changes. What people seem to not realize is there are billions of permutations of hardware and software on any platform. No manufacturer can possible test all combinations that are possible in any reasonable amount of time if at all. Not Apple, not anyone.gboswellsac wrote:I stand corrected in the light of your experience but I've come to expect that when a manufacturer has 100% control of the hardware and 100% control of the OS running on it that maybe I could expect most everything to work out of the box on the equipment...loukingjr wrote:I just have a comment about this post. I have been around computers all my life and I don't remember any OS that had a major update where some piece of software didn't break. Usually many will and do break. It is near impossible for any manufacturer to test all possible configurations of hardware and software.gboswellsac wrote:First Kudo's to Oracle/VirtualBox for the responses and fixes for what is an Apple failure to test before sending out products and software updates.
There is no need to apologize. People tend to get frustrated when things don't go as they would like. It seems obvious to me that VirtualBox 4.2.1 was written because the previous versions of VB did not run correctly on Ivy Bridge processors. Was that Apple's fault or Oracle's? Based on the people's comments above who do have Ivy Bridge MBPs, VB 4.2.1 fixed their problem. It never ceases to amaze me that when hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people can and do run a product successfully there will be individuals who think because in their case when they have trouble, it must be the OS or the hardware. Not, "hmmm, maybe I did something wrong, something in my system is corrupted or something that I had installed which used to run without issues is now causing a problem".
There is of course a very simple solution to this of course. Try out hardware with software you need to run before you purchase it or wait till things settle down before jumping in on new products.