alt Hacker NewsYes, they don't ever openly admit mistakes.
But they do quietly drop or fix them, covertly acknowledging they were mistakes. Often with this messaging: "we have this new shiny thing that is even better than the old shiny thing (that was really a turd)".
Remember "garbage collection"? Or "modern syntax"? Or CocoaJava?
And with hardware they had their "come to Jesus" moment a while ago. And then hit it out of the ballpark with Apple Silicon.
The one for software is still upcoming.
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mort96 • last Monday at 1:58 PM
SwiftUI is too big to silently drop. It is too difficult to silently fix.
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CocoaJava was when they were not certain devs educated in C++ and Object Pascal would ever accept Objective-C.
Garbage collection is still there, regardless of the marketing message without fundamentals from CS theory of automatic memory management algorithms, because they need to blame something else other than themselves, Apple does no wrong.