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The problem of doing this is you end-up with something like the Win32 API, with decade of undocumented methods people called that you must support 10 years afte
by realusername 11y ago
The problem of doing this is you end-up with something like the Win32 API, with decade of undocumented methods people called that you must support 10 years after because some critical applications are crashing.
- jowiar 11y agoOne of the best things about the iOS ecosystem is that people actually update their OS. This allows Apple to add new features, and developers can then develop for them knowing the user base isn't hanging back due to maintaining comparability with legacy code (witness how long it took IE6 to die).
- asveikau 11y agoIt's amusing to me that people defending very restrictive development frameworks will often talk as if any easement of the policy is a slippery slope to Windows 98. There is no middle ground! Can't do that because PCs sucked in the 90s! (Also implicitly ignores that NT based Windows got a lot better.)