Imagine how it feels when it's software you've spent many years crafting. I've been developing on the Mac since the late 80s and pretty much the entirety of wh

Imagine how it feels when it's software you've spent many years crafting. I've been developing on the Mac since the late 80s and pretty much the entirety of what we think of as the "Mac" has been deprecated on multiple occasions. There used to be this thing called the Toolbox which contained all the windowing GUI methods stored in ROM, then it was pretty much the entirety of the classic to NeXTSTEP transition we called Carbon, then it was most of Mac OS when they downsized it for iOS. Nowadays I wouldn't advise using native calls. It's probably better to get into something like Cordova or Ionic since if you are going to have any online capability, things like Core Data are going to feel antiquated compared to something like Firebase or RethinkDB. Not to mention the basic pain of rewriting your app to be cross platform with something like MinGW or The Cocotron. I still love Apple but from what I can tell, they are running out of options in both the hardware and software space because everything is about to go to VR and nobody is going to care what's running behind the scenes. Maybe Google is the new Apple, but to be blunt, no company has had the UX vision that Apple has. People are worried about a lack of ports on the new MacBook Pros but what we should really be worried about is a world without the simplicity and elegance of Apple in all things.