Perfectly Flawed

macOS Tahoe is doing something bizarre: it claims to mount FAT32 and NTFS drives, but nothing actually shows up anywhere in the system. While digging into Recovery to troubleshoot that mess, I noticed something else—Apple Silicon’s boot menu looks like it’s missing pieces that absolutely should be there.

At this point it feels less like a bug and more like a symptom of where Apple’s priorities have shifted. When a company is pouring more energy into Apple TV+ content than into core OS reliability, R&D stops being the backbone and starts being an afterthought. Apple is starting to resemble Microsoft in the late ’90s—huge, distracted, and letting the fundamentals slip.

If you want, I can tune the tone—more sarcastic, more technical, more rant‑y, or more neutral depending on the subreddit you’re pos

Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:06 PM UTC

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