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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by jernfrost on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:51PM (#15286972)
That is rubbish, Microsoft never acted like this. They allways favoured backwards compatibility. Apple OTOH has behaved this through their entire existence. Yet Apple still grew to a large company.

Quite the contrary it is this behaviour which has saved Apple. It made sure they could move forward with new technology quickly.

MS moves slowely because they accumulate so much cruft pulling them down. That is the flip side of always being backwards compatible and "nice" to the customers.

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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by masklinn on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:03PM (#15287150)
> Apple OTOH has behaved this through their entire existence.

Rosetta, Carbon and the Mac 68k Emulator are examples of the exact opposite.

Apple does not hesitate moving forwards, but historically they provided large amounts of backwards compatibility, just not as cruft inside the existing system.

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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by X-Istence on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:27PM (#15287417)
Rosetta was also removed after two or three releases. 32 bit support for applications in iOS was also supported for a couple of releases and is now gone.

How is that not similar? I can't still run Rosetta to this date...

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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by masklinn on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:20PM (#15287959)
> Rosetta was also removed after two or three releases.

4 years.

> How is that not similar? I can't still run Rosetta to this date...

iOS 11 removed 32b support to hardware which supports it, Rosetta added PPC support to hardware which did not.

Something similar to Rosetta would be emulating Aarch32 after having removed hardware support for it, not removing software support for Aarch32 despite the hardware implementing it.

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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by scarface74 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:04PM (#15298745)
4 years

Apple's cadence of releasing Mac OS upgrades was a lot slower back then. x86 Macs were introduced with 10.4. Two releases later (10.7) they dropped support for PPC apps and 32 bit Macs.

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