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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by bombcar on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:59PM (#33291776)
A culture of deprecation certainly helped; you couldn't iMac without it (everyone raged about it not having a floppy drive).

And even so they support carbon or cocoa or whatever it was for longer than people expected.

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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by hot_gril on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:05PM (#33291854)
They could have an iMac with a floppy drive. At the time, CDs were already popular enough, and external floppy drives were available. They didn't just drop the thing everyone's using.

They were nice sometimes, like with Rosetta (and v2).

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Re:Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' re... by hot_gril on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:17PM (#33292578)
Also, consumer hardware isn't the same as the API offered to developers, but an example where Apple dropped the thing everyone's using: The 2016 MacBook Pro forced a cutover to USB-C when it was at about 0% adoption, and it was a mess.
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