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Not to trivialize the problem, but I can't be the only one to think "Hey, maybe it's not a good idea to store permanent data in a directory called Caches".
by slillibri 15y ago
Not to trivialize the problem, but I can't be the only one to think "Hey, maybe it's not a good idea to store permanent data in a directory called Caches".
- dbattaglia 15y agoThat was exactly what I was thinking while reading this. Have you ever read any of Raymond Chen's "oldnewthing" blog? He talks a lot about app compatibility between Windows versions, and how they are forced to not change certain undocumented behaviors because developers end up relying on them regardless of the documentation. I didn't read the docs for iOS "caches" storage but I have a feeling this is another case of Apple's "break clients for a better OS" view on app-compat, compared to the MS's "buggy-er OS that still runs Windows 1.0 apps" view (I'm primarily a Windows dev, writing this from my iMac, so I'm not really biased either way, just an observation/guess).