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Apple used to list each update package's contents with name of update patch and brief description. Often there were multiple updates listed with check boxes giving user a choice to install or not, such as a list of iTunes update, iCal update, OS this or that update. I don't know when that changed - there were a few years last decade I wasn't a Mac user - but now there is no list, description, or checkbox choices, just a dialog saying update available, install now? Apple's primary philosophy seems to be to make things as transparent and automatic for user as possible, done in background rather than foreground, preferably with user not needing to know or care about it. Keeping users as up to date as possible in their OS prevents a lot of otherwise necessary customer support work. I don't think the philosophy is to keep the users stupid or ignorant, but it is more like "Why bother user with maintenance administrivia?" Superusers who do care about stuff like that generally get what they need from Apple's developer sites, forums, apps, etc.