The Apple platform needs a security patch? Gee, and all the time that I was told that Windows was the devil's invention and Apple was so wonderful.
Software engineering, like any other form of engineering, has its own form of physics which governs its limitations. Anybody who studies this sort of thing knows that defect rates are inversely proportional to the amount of time and effort that you spend developing the software. If you're willing to spend an infinite number of dollars, you will approach zero bugs (asymptotically, that is). NASA's software is much more reliable than anything produced by Apple or Microsoft or IBM because (a) the fact that human lives are involved demands strict proof of correctness, where each line of code must be proven to function, (b) NASA easily spends 10x (or more) than would be justifiable in a horizontal commercial software market, and (c) NASA isn't accountable to the taxpayers (aka shareholders) for its expenditures, so it can afford to accrue expenses which aren't reasonable for Apple, Microsoft, etc. People don't seem to realize this. They seem to think that there's some kind of "mythical process" that, if followed, results in defect-free software. Apple software has just as many defects as Microsoft or IBM. But, for many Mac fanboys, the love of boutique hardware trumps reality. Whatever. If they want to live in some kind of alternate reality -- where Mac software is so much better than anything produced by competitors -- let them live there. Just don't intrude on the reality shared by the vast majority of the planet by pushing their delusions on us.