yes, and.. "Apple started killing off APIs (including Carbon)"
there was some transition time when Apple published Carbon interfaces to Mac OS 9 devs (like me), stating that they were "transitional". Quite skeptical, I used them to rebuild some tools and apps in CodeWarrior. Within a short time, more updates had less Carbon, and the news came out that Codewarrior was locked out of OSX -- no deal. It was obvious that the Mac OS 9 interfaces were for chumps, and who wants to be a chump. It was true, and things changed.
yep, dangerous business calling out Apple these days tho. The only thing particularly relevant to the New Peoples on here is the takeaway that Apple has, can and will change its APIs as a means of exercising market and labor control any. time. they. want. to. It's in their DNA because their leadership came up in a time when these mechanisms were off-radar of labor regulators and the FTC (that they perceived to then be as relevant as modern day Bitcoiners surely perceive the SEC to be). The worst example was probably OpenDoc, but there are plenty of others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent Can still hear batshit criminals (now with personal fortunes worth $134B) talking about their "right" to innovate...(ie, F with the APIs) In looking at what's happening with Section 230 Reform, one can't help but wonder if the current dystopia could have been avoided had Congress given such attention to operating system APIs in the pre-AppStore/pre-HTML5 era.
there was some transition time when Apple published Carbon interfaces to Mac OS 9 devs (like me), stating that they were "transitional". Quite skeptical, I used them to rebuild some tools and apps in CodeWarrior. Within a short time, more updates had less Carbon, and the news came out that Codewarrior was locked out of OSX -- no deal. It was obvious that the Mac OS 9 interfaces were for chumps, and who wants to be a chump. It was true, and things changed.