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At our company (in one of the largest companies in the US) all of our employee related tools are iOS devices. So cross platform is unnecessary. It's not like we

At our company (in one of the largest companies in the US) all of our employee related tools are iOS devices. So cross platform is unnecessary. It's not like we standardized on Palm or Windows Phone, Apple is not going anywhere and neither are we.

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Yoric 8y ago
Well, Apple has demonstrated more than once that they are willing to U-Turn and entirely drop core technologies. By opposition, Linuxen and Microsoft try very hard to avoid breaking applications. So, while Apple is not going anywhere, whichever technologies you're using to build your iOS apps might.
- pram 8y ago
  Microsoft intentionally broke compatibility with every major release of Windows Phone though, and then ultimately killed the entire platform?
  - Yoric 8y ago
    Ah? I wasn't aware of that. Still, that doesn't mean that Apple won't :)
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Kill the entire platform?
- orbitur 8y ago
  Apple hasn't given any examples of removing APIs without a deprecation lasting at least a few years... on iOS. If it's deprecated on macOS, it's going to be around for a lot longer. They can certainly make things hellish for users trying to install your kext, but the APIs will still be there.