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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by janfoeh on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:06PM (#15386257)
Apple has been doing that for as long as I have been a Mac user - Quicktime 7 -> X, iMovie 11 -> 13, iPhoto -> Photos.app, iWork '11 -> '13, Final Cut Pro 7 -> X ... etc.

They generally seem to have few qualms releasing a reboot that does not have feature parity with its predecessor.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by danieldk on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:19PM (#15386377)
And mac.com -> me.com -> iCloud.com. E.g. me.com had keychain sync and it took them two years or so to bring it back in the form of iCloud Keychain.

One thing that I learned over the years is: let Apple provide the hardware and the OS, but prefer third-party software of proven vendors (Agilebits, Omni Group, etc).

Demolishing Disk Utility or Airport Utility was bad, because of the limited possibility of a 3rd party replacement.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by janfoeh on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:34PM (#15386514)
Me.com! I had already almost forgotten about that.

I know that iOS devs hated stuff like Core Data with a passion, but from where I'm sitting, iCloud has been so painless and trouble-free over the years that I have almost forgiven them their earlier attempts at services.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by eropple on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:13PM (#15386324)
It makes me wonder how Logic Pro has survived this long.
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