Re: For OSX users..
Christ how stupid are you?
The whooshing sound is thick irony passing over your head :). You do realise that someone needs to run OSX themselves to see those updates, no? You may thus speculate about the reason for that choice.
Downloading updates to make things work is not a problem.Downloading updates to constantly stop people trying to pawn your system is a tad bit different!
The OSX and iTunes updates mentioned in that post all came with associated CVE IDs (just as a quick example, the iTunes 12.2. upgrade alone addressed as many as thirty-nine different CVEs).