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I guess none of this is Putin’s fault. Let’s blame Apple instead.

It was completely obvious at the time that people were buying smartphones because of the computer and not the phone. Otherwise they wouldn’t have caught on.

You seem not to think the features operating system itself provides are part of a smartphone.

Keeping apps up to date with modern privacy concerns is a good thing. Why is anyone arguing in favor of developers abandoning apps?

It’s clearly delusional to expect iOS users to keep track of the deficiencies of all the old APIs their apps are using.

Yes, that’s the point here. A few end users can use an app the developer has abandoned, at the expense of the millions.

Defrosting them in a microwave would make them even more unpalatable. Also it not what they recommend. I don’t want to see them fail. That’s why I bought their product. I was willi…

Changes to old features also benefit the end users, and they do have to be breaking in a significant number of cases. If you think there are no insecure or inefficient APIs in olde…

No. The manual approval process covers the visible features, not shady stuff the reviewers can’t see. > By all means, apply extra scrutiny if an old API is in use. Maybe allow the …

Closing fashion boutiques isn’t going to do anything to “strip away everything that makes their lives worth living”. It’s a bizarre suggestion that a lack of access western clothin…

Maybe a tiny minority of end users, where the breaking changes benefit everyone else.

It seems like you genuinely think that closing fashion boutiques will stop Putin from using a nuclear weapon, and you seem to be comparing the loss of these boutiques to being cons…

The sibling and you are entitled to this preference, but I don’t see anything philosophical about it. The job of the computer is to serve the end user. The job of the OS is to mana…

This has never been true. The point of an OS is to manage the resources of the computer on behalf of the user . API stability sometimes serves the end user, and sometimes does not.…

Q: What can we do to stand up to someone threatening to use nuclear weapons? A: Close our remaining fashion boutiques. Seriously?

Why is it insane? Do you not test your library with new versions of the OS? Also - “windows does it” is obviously irrelevant when we are talking about a mobile OS.

How about just not very palatable or convenient? I bought a box of beyond meat burgers. They taste terrible compared to 4oz of beef with a little salt, and you have to keep them fr…

UML was an attempt at this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

Other platforms don’t care if applications fingerprint the device without the user’s consent. Closing off APIs that facilitate fingerprinting is just one of many incompatible chang…

Quite a few changes over the past few years have been reducing access to data that can be used for fingerprinting, and requiring apps to ask permission for access to user data. Thi…

This is just wrong. Some older APIs are simply insecure or inefficient for example, and of course there are things that apps must now ask permission for where they didn’t in the pa…

That’s because the platform is actually changing.

> Rectangle with capacitive screen is just that. If you think that’s all a smartphone is, then it’s natural to come to the conclusion that the only thing that has changed is speed …

You’re just wrong. The reason developers support iOS is that iOS users buy more apps.