Something I've been pondering recently: It is sometimes said that Apple is notorious on deprecating APIs and breaking backwards-compatibility at a rapid pace, b

Something I've been pondering recently: It is sometimes said that Apple is notorious on deprecating APIs and breaking backwards-compatibility at a rapid pace, but is it not fundamentally the same that is shared with Linux? Old developers lamenting that they have developed something useful in 2015-2015 that doesn't work in any more in 2025. And if Linux distributions do it and it can be thought to be a form of opinionated design, can Apple be blamed for it? Unix/FreeBSD legacy and all. Of course with Apple ecosystem you need relatively recent hardware and have to pay the annual developer program fee, but the expectation is still the same: if you release something, you should keep it up-to-date and not just "fire and forget" like in Windows and expect it to work. Maybe Windows is the anomaly here.