> what leads you to believe that software is perpetually maintained and ported to newer releases. Apple has never hesitated deprecating and then removing apis.

> what leads you to believe that software is perpetually maintained and ported to newer releases. Apple has never hesitated deprecating and then removing apis. Right now they have translation software so you can run x86 apps on their arm hardware but guess what? In two years a release will come out that doesn’t have that anymore and apps that are unmaintained and haven’t been recompiled or ported to arm won’t work anymore. The only argument there is is that it isn’t too nice to do this in a point release. But it wouldn’t surprise me if their hand got forced by some security issue that couldn’t be fixed. Obviously they aren’t going to make the huge investment required to fix it themselves, it’s dead technology.