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Re:macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address by oneplane on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:50PM (#21197088)
Odd. I never had a public API go bad on macOS, ever. There were always multi-year planned deprecations etc but no sudden changes. The only issue I remember had to do with a toolbox issue before my time where timing wasn't always reliable to be sub-ms precise. Even 68k to PPC transition went fine API-wise, as well as toolbox to carbon.

Perhaps you are exclusively referring to mobile 'apps' and the APIs you can use for those?

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Re:macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address by LeoNatan25 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:47PM (#21198109)
Yeah, the context of the post you replied to is for iOS APIs. AppKit is a lot more stable, and it shows. It is still possible to run 10-12 year old software on Mojave (but not on Catalina). On the other hand, sometimes even one OS upgrade can break existing software visually or worse on iOS.
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