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by NateLawson 3904 days ago
Yep, there are tons of SDKs being used that aren't actively maintained like ASIHTTPRequest on iOS, for example. There are two reasons we've found:

1. App was written a while ago and is only in maintenance mode

2. Developer got started early on and hasn't kept track of the industry

The latter often happens with internal dev kits, where someone drops a static library in (say, to add a wrapper) and then never updates the dependency. New apps inherit it when they use the internal dev kit.