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> Today Apple and AWS (among a great many others) are notorious for unilaterally turning off services that people have built businesses around. I'm curious. Ca

> Today Apple and AWS (among a great many others) are notorious for unilaterally turning off services that people have built businesses around. I'm curious. Can you give a few examples of such Apple services?

zackmorris 2y ago
I probably should have said Apple APIs or libraries. It's been a while since I did macOS/iOS programming, and I got out of it because I got tired of seeing stuff like this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/assetslibrary/alassetslibrary https://developer.apple.com/documentation/assetslibrary/alas... Looks like maybe they've slowed down on their deprecations a bit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-17-release-notes#Deprecations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-16-release-notes#Deprecations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release... It was rough 20 years ago with the Carbon to Cocoa transition, Objective-C to Swift, CoreGraphics to OpenGL to Metal, etc. Always a moving target, never cross-platform. It's all so opposite to how I would do things. I remember when the US national debt was $3 trillion in the 80s, now that's Apple's market cap. Makes it hard to focus and make rent these days when so many other people are rolling in dough. For anyone curious, with AWS I get notices every few months about some core service or configuration option that's getting discontinued in 6 months. Last year it was launch configurations for ECS (maybe the EC2 portion) that had to be migrated to launch templates (can't recall exactly). A deploy failed before I could finish a large feature I had been working on, which caused me to drop everything, which led to overlapping merges in git and associated headaches that set us back weeks. I should have been ahead of that, but it couldn't have come at a worse time.

zackmorris 2y ago

I probably should have said Apple APIs or libraries. It's been a while since I did macOS/iOS programming, and I got out of it because I got tired of seeing stuff like this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/assetslibrary/alassetslibrary https://developer.apple.com/documentation/assetslibrary/alas... Looks like maybe they've slowed down on their deprecations a bit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-17-release-notes#Deprecations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-16-release-notes#Deprecations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release... It was rough 20 years ago with the Carbon to Cocoa transition, Objective-C to Swift, CoreGraphics to OpenGL to Metal, etc. Always a moving target, never cross-platform. It's all so opposite to how I would do things. I remember when the US national debt was $3 trillion in the 80s, now that's Apple's market cap. Makes it hard to focus and make rent these days when so many other people are rolling in dough. For anyone curious, with AWS I get notices every few months about some core service or configuration option that's getting discontinued in 6 months. Last year it was launch configurations for ECS (maybe the EC2 portion) that had to be migrated to launch templates (can't recall exactly). A deploy failed before I could finish a large feature I had been working on, which caused me to drop everything, which led to overlapping merges in git and associated headaches that set us back weeks. I should have been ahead of that, but it couldn't have come at a worse time.