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The US Navy was paying $9M to keep Windows XP updated and patched just for them.[0] I bet if you pay Apple similar amounts of money per year, they'll keep spec
by theshrike79 2y ago
The US Navy was paying $9M to keep Windows XP updated and patched just for them.[0]
I bet if you pay Apple similar amounts of money per year, they'll keep specific APIs available just for you.
And it's not like updating the app to a new iOS version is a massive undertaking, in most cases it's just a matter of opening the project in XCode, adjusting the OS version, compiling and publishing it again.
[0] https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/26/technology/microsoft-windows-xp-navy-contract/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/26/technology/microsoft-window...
- bad_user 2y agoI can't speak about iOS, but when I open Steam on macOS, I see more than 2/3 of my library unavailable since macOS Catalina, which entirely ruined macOS for gaming for me. Clearly, updating those wasn't so simple. And also, it's unreasonable to expect all software projects to need updates, forever. My hammer doesn't need updates.
- theshrike79 2y agoIIRC this was a switch from 64/32 bit to only 64 bit executable support. Something that just has to be done, and not doing it has a clear cost.
- majewsky 2y agoIf it "has to be done", then why have Windows and Linux etc. not done it?
- theshrike79 2y agoMicrosoft gets paid to support old versions. Linux has dedicated people working for free to support the weirdest hardware and software