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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 steve_adams_86 »

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #69
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.

Your comment is irrelevant because your MBA left support eras ago and is riddled with bugs and security vulnerabilities at this point. Apple also does a poor job at long term software support or granting users the ability to run Linux, especially the newer the systems get.

The comment is a question; I’m not sure why one answer or another would make it irrelevant.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by lapcat »

stasomatic wrote: post #54

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> It's in vogue to rag on Apple because of its size/influence/market cap.

Article author here. I've been a Mac developer and blogging about the Mac since 2006, before iPhone was even announced, when Apple was much smaller in size/influence/market cap. Nothing about my blog is "in vogue".

> I've used hdutil perhaps never.

Why are you commenting on an article about hdiutil, which you've never used and can't even spell?

And why would you think that a technical comparison of the hdiutil and diskutil command-line utilities would be an effective way to "rag" on Apple? I use hdiutil every day, so that's why I'm concerned.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by dosisking »

akerl_ wrote: post #73
oefrha wrote: post #60

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

"can't" here isn't really the right word. They obviously could, in the same way that a company making $4.5 million could . But there's a near infinite number of things they could do; they're constantly choosing which to actually do. AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am.

> AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am.

So in reality, AI has not changed your productivity at all, because you are using the extra time you saved to post on HN

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by altairprime »

oefrha wrote: post #60

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

Refusing to maintain something isn't some sort of 'poorness signal', it's a wealth-neutral choice that could have any number of contextual drivers. Apple may not be eligible for 'too poor to maintain it' but invalidating one potential motivation leaves many others unaddressed and offers no useful argument against removal.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by Shank »

compiler-devel wrote: post #63
oefrha wrote: post #60

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

The greed is as endless as the earth is old.

Is it also not greedy to demand virtually unlimited support from companies? Why should Apple spend money on this random utility that virtually nobody uses?

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by saagarjha »

Shank wrote: post #85
compiler-devel wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The greed is as endless as the earth is old.

Is it also not greedy to demand virtually unlimited support from companies? Why should Apple spend money on this random utility that virtually nobody uses?

Because I use it and pay them money for that?

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by ranger_danger »

dosisking wrote: post #83
akerl_ wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"can't" here isn't really the right word. They obviously could, in the same way that a company making $4.5 million could . But there's a near infinite number of things they could do; they're constantly choosing which to actually do. AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am.

> AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am. So in reality, AI has not changed your productivity at all, because you are using the extra time you saved to post on HN

Whose to say that more HN posting isn't more productive? /s

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by miniBill »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #56
StilesCrisis wrote: post #28

"Despite giving Apple 100% reliable steps to reproduce, they asked me if the issue still occurred in the latest beta, and if it does, then I should submit an iOS sysdiagnose." No one looked at your repro steps, and no one researched your bug. They're just looking to cull the bug list. If you don't respond immediately, your radar is closed.

Sometimes I almost believe there are whole sections of the Apple Ring building where the employees are so immersed in IOS that they're unaware MacOS exists.

I understand that your comment is meant as a joke but... all the people working on iOS use macOS daily. On their Mac. That they work on.

Re: hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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Post by xethos »

saagarjha wrote: post #86
Shank wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it also not greedy to demand virtually unlimited support from companies? Why should Apple spend money on this random utility that virtually nobody uses?

Because I use it and pay them money for that?

Yes, you've made the right call trusting Apple with this, the company with famously-good backwards-compatibility and long-lived support for third-party software /s
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