[petke]

Not to be a dick, but some companies seem to care more than others about the developers that rely on their frameworks. Google doesnt seem to care much. Facebook seems to care more. But Microsoft seems to care most. They have not abandoned legacy mfc, visual basic, and win 32 developers even though they probably should have. Granted those are not services but they require maintenance resources nontheless.

[stickfigure]

Eh? I have apps that are almost 10yo on Google App Engine. Even when they forced a complete migration from the Master/Slave datastore to the High Replication Datastore, it was a pushbutton process that required minimal intervention. Honestly if I have any complaint it's that they don't force change faster.

On the other hand, Facebook's API changes at a pretty rapid pace and there are few apps older than a couple years that have survived without significant code changes. I've seen API changes that are basically "rewrite your whole app".