Lightning Connector was not killed by Apple though. Not really.
Arguably if anything killed by EU
Killed by Apple
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's important to highlight Apple's mentality : That old devices are dead to them, and the pretending that they don't even exist anymore. I have a house full of Apple hardware and none of them get updates from Apple anymore, and I can't manually update them without hackery (OpenCore) or wiping them to install Linux (where possible). Also, because third party app developers largely align with Apple's philosoph…
> Also, because third party app developers largely align with Apple's philosophy, less and less 3rd party software even works on my computers anymore. I think it's more about 3rd party app developers attempting to improve their products and stay relevant. If Apple releases a new framework or API that would make a developer’s app better, but it requires macOS 14 or later, are they not supposed to incorporate it? I've…
On both macOS and iOS it is straightforward to target older devices while using the newer SDKs, and to use those new frameworks conditionally based on the user's OS. Of course, Apple's tooling makes this harder and harder to do, the older the targeted OS is.
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It's a riff on https://killedbygoogle.com/
But killing a service is something completely different then discontinueing hardware or interface standards. A lot here is still well supported. This page could have used some heavy editing after asking the LLM to compile all stuff from wikipedia. Lost it at the Lightning listing, which apple still first party even: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/muqw3am/a/lightning-to-us...
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Re: Killed by Apple
#94Lightning Connector was not killed by Apple though. Not really.
Is there any evidence that it was "years of regulatory and industry pressure" that did it?
When Apple introduced Lightning it was as the "modern connector for the next decade" and... that's exactly what happened.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's important to highlight Apple's mentality : That old devices are dead to them, and the pretending that they don't even exist anymore. I have a house full of Apple hardware and none of them get updates from Apple anymore, and I can't manually update them without hackery (OpenCore) or wiping them to install Linux (where possible). Also, because third party app developers largely align with Apple's philosoph…
> I think it's important to highlight Apple's mentality: That old devices are dead to them, and their pretending they don't even exist anymore. Sorry but the HomePod wasn't "killed" just because they upgraded from gen 1 to gen 2. Gen 1 HomePod literally just got a software update a month ago with another on the way. The iPhone X wasn't "killed" just because they released the iPhone 11. This list is egregiously versio…
They used to just kill those things with upgrades until they were forced not to.
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#96Lots of these items were just moved from the app store into the os. How is that killed? That said, I really miss Dark Sky. Acme weather is good but not quite there yet.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's important to highlight Apple's mentality : That old devices are dead to them, and the pretending that they don't even exist anymore. I have a house full of Apple hardware and none of them get updates from Apple anymore, and I can't manually update them without hackery (OpenCore) or wiping them to install Linux (where possible). Also, because third party app developers largely align with Apple's philosoph…
> I think it's important to highlight Apple's mentality: That old devices are dead to them, and their pretending they don't even exist anymore. Sorry but the HomePod wasn't "killed" just because they upgraded from gen 1 to gen 2. Gen 1 HomePod literally just got a software update a month ago with another on the way. The iPhone X wasn't "killed" just because they released the iPhone 11. This list is egregiously versio…
Yeah. Still daily driving my two 8-year old OG HomePods. Compared to e.g., Sonos, who discontinued the Play:1 after 5 years, that's pretty good.
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#98Wow another vibeslopped website on the front of Hacker News, how original!
I'm disappointed these keep making it to the front page, but clearly most people here have no taste or standards.
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#99If anything, this website provides a great track record for Apple. Most of the discontinued products are either ancient or just got rebranded, and many stayed alive way longer than expected (iPod Touches until 2022??!!).
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
All this sounds great in theory, but Mac does not have a particularly stable ABI and it's fairly common for closed source software from 5+ years ago to just not run.
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that it can run more software (legally) than any other platform.
Yes, the company that explicitly closes its ecosystem can also run the more open ecosystems legally, and those open ecosystems can't legally run the closed one.
That's a knock against Apple, not a bragging point.