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		ghettoimp on Oct 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible wit... MS's backwards compatibility is definitely great. It's probably also a big opportunity cost and a hindrance to them developing new things. Tradeoffs everywhere.

cpach on Oct 12, 2019 [–]

”Tradeoffs everywhere”

Exactly. Even though breaking backwards-compatibility is annoying for users, Apple doesn’t do this out of sheer spite.

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