newtritious

I guess none of this is Putin’s fault. Let’s blame Apple instead.

It was completely obvious at the time that people were buying smartphones because of the computer and not the phone.

Otherwise they wouldn’t have caught on.

You seem not to think the features operating system itself provides are part of a smartphone.

Keeping apps up to date with modern privacy concerns is a good thing. Why is anyone arguing in favor of developers abandoning apps?

It’s clearly delusional to expect iOS users to keep track of the deficiencies of all the old APIs their apps are using.

Yes, that’s the point here. A few end users can use an app the developer has abandoned, at the expense of the millions.

Defrosting them in a microwave would make them even more unpalatable. Also it not what they recommend.

I don’t want to see them fail. That’s why I bought their product. I was willing to pay more than beef for potential health and environmental benefits.

It’s just not a good product though.

Changes to old features also benefit the end users, and they do have to be breaking in a significant number of cases.

If you think there are no insecure or inefficient APIs in older versions of operating systems, then you are simply wrong.

No. The manual approval process covers the visible features, not shady stuff the reviewers can’t see.

> By all means, apply extra scrutiny if an old API is in use. Maybe allow the API only in updates to old apps, and not new ones.

If the developer is updating the app, there is no reason they shouldn’t adopt a more user friendly api.

Closing fashion boutiques isn’t going to do anything to “strip away everything that makes their lives worth living”. It’s a bizarre suggestion that a lack of access western clothing brands could have this effect.

There are in fact Russian clothing brands and tailors, who are just as good.

Maybe a tiny minority of end users, where the breaking changes benefit everyone else.

It seems like you genuinely think that closing fashion boutiques will stop Putin from using a nuclear weapon, and you seem to be comparing the loss of these boutiques to being conscripted into the army.

I don’t think you are being sensible.

The sibling and you are entitled to this preference, but I don’t see anything philosophical about it.

The job of the computer is to serve the end user. The job of the OS is to manage the computer’s resources on the users behalf.

API stability can contribute to that goal, but this is not an absolute.

Apple balances their view of what is good for users over what is good for developers and themselves.

Your preference is to prioritize developer comfort over both end users and Apple.

This has never been true. The point of an OS is to manage the resources of the computer on behalf of the user.

API stability sometimes serves the end user, and sometimes does not. When it does not, it should not be maintained.