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>Apple's utter contempt for backward compatibility is why people who care about their sanity hate developing products for OSX. Which API is Apple going to deprecate and screw me over with today?

You mean like they countless new API versions and frameworks that MS introduces year over year as "THE" way to write Windows programs?

Sure, they might retain binary compatibility, but if you want future-proof your stuff and continue to get updates and changes you have to jump to the new shiny.



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