[kens]

The title "GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020" is not the real title, which is "These GM Vehicles Can No Longer Download Apps Through Their Infotainment System"

I'll also point out that "deprecate" is not a fancy synonym for "shutting down"; it means that something is discouraged and might be removed in the future. GM is not deprecating the app store; they are removing access.

[arjie]

The slow transformation of 'deprecating' to 'ending' has somehow happened across a period where I didn't notice it happening. Most recently this bit me when a place I was contracting at received notice that a vendor was 'deprecating' some old API they used in May of 2025. Okay, thanks for the warning, and I'll prioritize dealing with that later in the year.

As it so happens, the vendor intended to say that they were insta-sunsetting/deleting/ending-access-to that endpoint. The switch wasn't too much effort for an engineer on the team but that was honestly my first encounter with the fact that "deprecation" today means "deletion" to a lot of people.

There's a few things like this that have semantic drift over time:

1. deprecate -> delete

2. refactor -> rewrite

3. data normalization -> data cleanup

4. hash/encrypt -> now often interchanged

5. authenticate/authorize -> interchanged

6. bricked -> has error, often recoverable

[coin]

Yes this trend is rewriting the title is annoying. I wish there were a way to downvote posts.

[vermilingua]

There is, flag is for posts that violate site terms, and editorialising titles violates site terms.