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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by pudgywalsh »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #9
DrJokepu wrote: post #5

> To conclude, I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil. For some reason, Apple seems intent on breaking longtime workflows and scripts. Brother, it’s Apple. Any backwards compatibility is purely incidental.

Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.

> Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways?

No.

Can't run current versions of any apps including Chrome, Edge, and Safari.

Meanwhile the hardware is perfectly fine and could run a supported version of Windows or Linux.

Call me when Apple has a "LTSC" version of their OS. (Spoiler: they won't, ever. Supporting Apple in an enterprise is nothing short of a nightmare.)

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by bigyabai »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #9
DrJokepu wrote: post #5

> To conclude, I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil. For some reason, Apple seems intent on breaking longtime workflows and scripts. Brother, it’s Apple. Any backwards compatibility is purely incidental.

Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.

> It’s not super current and not all apps work

That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by select1 »

bigyabai wrote: post #14
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.

> It’s not super current and not all apps work That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux.

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Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by [deleted] »

DrJokepu wrote: post #5

> To conclude, I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil. For some reason, Apple seems intent on breaking longtime workflows and scripts. Brother, it’s Apple. Any backwards compatibility is purely incidental.

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Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by bigyabai »

kdkdkwjfkw wrote: post #12
haunter wrote: post #6

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I don't think they're wrong. Apple is very open about their desire to depreciate legacy tech like OpenGL and HFS to promote proprietary alternatives.

There's a perennial churn of "Apple depreciated my favorite feature!" (I used to be one of them) and most of those people (including myself) eventually accept an alternative.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by detourdog »

DrJokepu wrote: post #5

> To conclude, I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil. For some reason, Apple seems intent on breaking longtime workflows and scripts. Brother, it’s Apple. Any backwards compatibility is purely incidental.

Diskutil has been around for over a decade and slowly getting features that hdiutil was missing.

Things change but this is hardly some sort of sudden rug pull by Apple.

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