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>other policies they have are anti-consumer - like breaking functionality that applications you bought are depending on in newer versions of the OS This is suc

by neotek 7y ago

>other policies they have are anti-consumer - like breaking functionality that applications you bought are depending on in newer versions of the OS This is such a HN comment. On what planet is it Apple's responsibility to maintain their operating system in such a way that third-party apps from developers who don't give a shit about maintaining compatibility can continue running until the heat death of the universe? It's like being angry that Microsoft didn't stick with 8.3 character filenames forever.

badsectoracula 7y ago
> On what planet is it Apple's responsibility to maintain their operating system in such a way that third-party apps On planet Earth. > who don't give a shit about maintaining compatibility Or the developer does not exist anymore or has "pivoted" to something else entirely or has discontinued the program or they have no funds to do the conversion or they rely on technologies by others that (do not exist anymore, have "pivoted" to something else entirely, have discontinued the technology, have no funds to do the conversion, rely on technologies by others that (do not exits anymore, ...)), or simply the newer version is undesirable for the user (due to worse UI/UX, lower performance, monetization-driven user-hostile changes, etc). As a user all i care about my programs keep working. > It's like being angry that Microsoft didn't stick with 8.3 character filenames forever. When Microsoft introduced long file names it was implemented in a way that was backwards compatible with existing software in a way that would be possible to both use existing volumes with 8.3 format, add/rename files with long filenames and have those be visible in a 8.3 form for compatibility with older software. And 8.3 character compatibility still exists on Windows 10. For example if you have any GOG games installed you can type DIR C:\GOGGAM~1 on command prompt to see the contents of C:\GOG Games. You can disable this via the registry, but it is enabled for backwards compatibility.

by neotek 7y ago

badsectoracula 7y ago

> On what planet is it Apple's responsibility to maintain their operating system in such a way that third-party apps On planet Earth. > who don't give a shit about maintaining compatibility Or the developer does not exist anymore or has "pivoted" to something else entirely or has discontinued the program or they have no funds to do the conversion or they rely on technologies by others that (do not exist anymore, have "pivoted" to something else entirely, have discontinued the technology, have no funds to do the conversion, rely on technologies by others that (do not exits anymore, ...)), or simply the newer version is undesirable for the user (due to worse UI/UX, lower performance, monetization-driven user-hostile changes, etc). As a user all i care about my programs keep working. > It's like being angry that Microsoft didn't stick with 8.3 character filenames forever. When Microsoft introduced long file names it was implemented in a way that was backwards compatible with existing software in a way that would be possible to both use existing volumes with 8.3 format, add/rename files with long filenames and have those be visible in a 8.3 form for compatibility with older software. And 8.3 character compatibility still exists on Windows 10. For example if you have any GOG games installed you can type DIR C:\GOGGAM~1 on command prompt to see the contents of C:\GOG Games. You can disable this via the registry, but it is enabled for backwards compatibility.