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by scarface74
1366 days ago
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Microsoft made most of its money back then in two ways - corporations and individuals buying Windows upgrades and bundling Windows with new computers. If Windows got a reputation for being incompatible with apps, people wouldn’t upgrade. iOS doesn’t really have that problem. New phones are always going to come with new operating systems and if your app doesn’t run on the new OS, users are going to blame the app developers. Also most of the incompatibility with apps and new operating systems comes from developers using unpublished APIs. Apple is very strict about not allowing developers to use unpublished methods [1]. [1] I refuse to use the term “private APIs”. An API is a documented method that the platform vendor documents and promises to support |
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