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Seems like a brilliant way to browbeat your developers into constantly updating all "legacy" API calls thereby ensuring they only work on the latest system, for
by housemusicfan 3y ago
Seems like a brilliant way to browbeat your developers into constantly updating all "legacy" API calls thereby ensuring they only work on the latest system, forcing your customers to always upgrade to the latest and greatest OS, meaning they'll be forced to buy new hardware continually to ensure compatibility with their favorite applications, and Apple ensures a continuous demand of selling clueless customers shiny new things.
- seec 3y agoYep, considering recent Apple behavior it is very likely that this is actually the prime motivator for this happening. I'm pretty sure some manager got pushed to find how they could motivate peoples to upgrade/swap earlier and this is one method they came around. Then Apple and their (power)users don't understand why big software company don't want to go through the trouble or porting to macOS their very large software. It's not just about market share...