LOL, "better" and "badly" are subjective. To belabor your original metaphor, if Apple is indeed selling gasoline cars, we're still looking for hybrid/electric ones. if only we could have skipped the gasoline and had thoughtful development right to solar/electric/etc. (instead of climate change). I don't think backward compatibility is necessarily the solution (and Windows is no beacon of hope for good dev), but removing useful capability for no good reason is just plain stupid.
A lot of recent changes at Apple are not "better", just because they're changes/new/different (disbanding the router team <https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/10/apple-mesh-wifi-system-airport/>instead of keeping-up with new WiFi developments and saturating the home with a full/robust Apple ecosystem; removing "disablelocal" in High Sierra <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79297>; all of the mess that was/is High Sierra <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=high+sierra+exploit+macos&atb=v109-7_y&ia=web> until 10.13.4 finally(?), releasing iOS11 knowing it did not work with Office 365 <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/82279> and so on). It goes well beyond APIs and software devs. Anyone who'd disagree with even just the few things I listed, you simply reaffirm my actual point. It's not "better", just "different", which too often just plain sucks (or is fan-freaking-tastic, depending on your bent)... If it ain't broke*, -Matt *P.S. To carry your metaphor even further, if you're gonna spruce-up the engine, make sure the thing still has wheels (and round ones, no less) when you're done! > On Apr 25, 2018, at 11:34 AM, Steve Mills <sjmi...@mac.com> wrote: > > >> On Apr 25, 2018, at 09:45:00, MeldaProduction <i...@meldaproduction.com> >> wrote: >> >> Apple is simply covering badly designed APIs > > So you want to keep using "badly designed APIs"? Why?! > >> Look at Windows, it's backwards >> compatible without problems for like 20 years now > > "Without problems". That's hilarious. > >> That's a joke... > > Says the guy still typing return at the end of every line because that > newfangled automatic wrapping is like some kind of voodoo that you don't > trust because it's not the way you used to do it all for decades, not to > mention typing period period period instead of option-;. > > -- > Steve Mills > Drummer, Mac geek > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apple.com%2Fmailman%2Foptions%2Fcocoa-dev%2Fmkozak%2540oit.rutgers.edu&data=02%7C01%7Cmkozak%40oit.rutgers.edu%7C642bede014e740f3650708d5aac215ad%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636602672925582681&sdata=kwNs%2BVPF9FBGVllYCgYSvNzY404XwV%2BnNNmk9W0CBTc%3D&reserved=0 > > This email sent to mko...@oit.rutgers.edu _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
