There are at least two elements to software maintenance: one is adding truly new features, and the other is making stupid changes just to keep old features working as they always did (often due to platform or hardware changes, especially with Apple!).
I see Apple coughing up none of the costs that they create by regularly fiddling with their platforms and hardware in breaking ways, yet that is a big reason why software can’t be sensibly “bought once”. Now they’ve come up with a scheme where they not only don’t give developers discounts for maintaining software but actually take yet another cut.
I see Apple coughing up none of the costs that they create by regularly fiddling with their platforms and hardware in breaking ways, yet that is a big reason why software can’t be sensibly “bought once”. Now they’ve come up with a scheme where they not only don’t give developers discounts for maintaining software but actually take yet another cut.
Don’t judge developers too harshly.