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Re:App will self destruct in 5 months:How Counterpath have s... by msh on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:48PM (#15351602)
Well they know a new one comes out every year so they would have to be willfully ignorant to not know that and that it have a chance of breaking behavior.

If they want to charge for new versions it would only be fair if they at sales time gave a time range for how long they were going to support current versions.

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Re:App will self destruct in 5 months:How Counterpath have s... by achamayou on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:27PM (#15351972)
Some releases are much more substantial than others though. Apple may even deprecate functionality they depend on without a suitable replacement. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that the customer is given the choice to pay for the upgrade or not, rather than build in the insurance cost all the time.
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Re:App will self destruct in 5 months:How Counterpath have s... by msh on Thursday September 28, 2017 @01:01PM (#15358809)
I think the programmer is much better equipped to make a informed choice about this than the customer.
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