"Won't fix, as designed." B2B web apps have been hacky since time immemorial. Where I work, a different engineering team wrote a CMS in a bunch of Java with som

"Won't fix, as designed." B2B web apps have been hacky since time immemorial. Where I work, a different engineering team wrote a CMS in a bunch of Java with somehow Perl CGI to handle all of the little hacks that couldn't be put in to the main code base. I found this out by fixing a hack named emailservice_bkp_new2.cgi which was a hard coded rss parser. Our other client relations applications are even worse, often in IIS 6.0, and dating from 2003. Simply put, there isn't much "business reason" behind fixing something that isn't broken, but very shoddy. The difference now is that "prosumer" application developers have enough economic weight to register as a force, but not enough to cause Apple to reconsider their entrenched developer relations.