My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke.<p>Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.
this is literally a developers worst nightmare ... i experienced this one time when we released an android app. the auto updater broke. so we had to phone the customers to uninstall the app and install a new app. now this was with less than 1,000 users. i can only imagine how this would be like for company like Apple.
> Unfortunately, it is a client-side issue affecting both 11.0.1 and 11.1 clients. So there’s not much Apple can do to provide a fix.<p>Seems rather unlikely to be true.
Is the author sure that it's a bug and not just Apple holding back the new update for the MDM-enrolled machines for a week or so? See <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/defer-feature-updates-in-windows-10-770c0ea8-eee5-ae25-f695-8e33f541e04d" rel="nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/defer-feature-up...</a> for a native feature in Windows to defer feature updates by X days specifically (quite cleverly, it does not defer security updates, only new feature updates).
"Under certain conditions, macOS 11.0.1 and macOS 11.1 hosts are requesting the update server send the 11.0.1 update, instead of requesting the next available one."<p>What conditions are these?
Normal companies =><p><pre><code> //HACK ALERT: Fix Big Sur update problem
if ProductVersion = "11.1" &&
RequestedProductVersion = "11.0.1" {
RequestedProductVersion = "11.1"
}</code></pre>
Honestly I think it's a "feature" because as it goes, each new version of macOS introduces a bunch of problems that never existed before or should've been resolved during the beta version. The fact that Big Sur prevents from upgrading to future problematic versions is really a good thing :)