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Apple isn't afraid of ditching tech when it becomes clear it's a dead end. In almost all cases they've been correct and the rest of the industry soon follows th

Apple isn't afraid of ditching tech when it becomes clear it's a dead end. In almost all cases they've been correct and the rest of the industry soon follows their leads. Think how reliable Windows would be today if they hadn't left in all the cruft as far back as Windows 2000.

yellowapple 7y ago
> In almost all cases they've been correct and the rest of the industry soon follows their leads. Counterpoint: 3.5mm jacks are perfectly fine and were never a "dead end". OpenGL's indeed pretty crusty, but Vulkan is not. Apple would be better off participating in that ecosystem instead of letting NIH syndrome take hold. > Think how reliable Windows would be today if they hadn't left in all the cruft as far back as Windows 2000. Counterpoint: an x86 Linux executable statically compiled/linked any time after the a.out → ELF migration (so... predating Windows 2000) can be expected to run without issue on a bleeding-edge x86 kernel today (and if it's not able to do so, then that's a bug, and Linus will personally descend upon and eviscerate the one unfortunate enough to have introduced that bug).