I'm also a happy Apple One subscriber. I will have to check it out again. Thanks!

Apple Maps was truly bad for many years. I switched from Google Maps maybe about 5 years ago. I try out Waze and Google Maps again every now and then, but at this point I generally prefer Apple Maps. I rarely find any large routing differences. In my neighborhood, Apple Maps is actually more correct. I've submitted a correction to Google Maps probably a dozen times (over more than a decade) for a road listing that is just totally wrong, and it's never changed. I submitted it to Apple and it was fixed within about 3-4 months.

Someone who actually uses News?! I think I clicked into it about twice before I uninstalled it and never looked back. Is it of any value??

I use Yelp because it's become the de facto registry of restaurants, open hours, etc., but I feel that at this point it's an objectively bad experience. More and more ads. Inability to exclude certain cuisine types. And did we really need politics and cancel culture coming to restaurants because of something an employee or owner or partner may or may not have said? I'm so sick of social media interactions dehumanizing everything.

As with Netflix, Facebook, and many other sites, the (stated) goal has gone from giving you recommendations that you will want to recommendations that drive engagement and produce money from sponsors. Blech.

Sounds fun. I've been very tempted to get a maxed out Mac Mini and do some local model experimentation.

I've asked multiple people, in multiple places, the same thing, and I have yet to get an answer!

I'm completely baffled, and I'm a daily LLM user!

Very interesting interview, thanks for sharing. Amazing that that goes back to 2005.

(Also of minor interest that both Eric Schmidt and Charlie Rose were accused of being sex pests, with legal proceeding still or recently ongoing.)

I'm happy that (until relatively recently) adventure was still bundled with FreeBSD installs. It's a pkg today.

Ken Williams, formerly of Sierra Entertainment, oversaw the production of a 3D remake just a couple of years ago. I've never played it, but it seems to get decent+ reviews.

So, you jump into a thread specifically about Apple supporting old devices but next you say "numbers are irrelevant" when they don't match your narrative. You make bombastic claims like "if we stop bending over for them, we can bring them to heel. They should not be allowed to abandon devices they could easily support when any significant number of people are still using them" but won't even attempt to articulate what your demand actually is. Seemingly, supporting 11+ year old devices and 5 major OS revisions is not sufficient. Forget Apple, if that gets your dander up, support is an issue for almost all developers.

Your statement has real costs that must be born by someone. Supporting more than a decade of devices (with multiple device releases each year) and five OS revisions (and maintaining build systems, testing systems and staff, etc.) is not a simple operation.

Regulations are very easy to impose through anti-corporate diatribes, when you ignore costs and consequences.

Apple was the context of the other post, but you were modded down for a stupid comment and not because of anything about Apple.

I'm still curious to see your answer.

Sure, since you missed it in my post, here's what I already asked you:

From your post, directly replying to OP about Apple, it's clear that you believe Apple is egregiously guilty of breaking your rules and "we [need to] stop bending over for them, we [need to] bring them to heel." (Nice.) Apple currently supports 11+ years of devices and 5 major OS software revisions. Well under 1% of iOS users are running something that is not currently supported.

So, what can Apple "easily support" that they are not currently supporting, and define exactly for the purposes of your rule what "any signfigicant number of people" is.

We're on the same page. Enshittification is kind of unavoidable because the vast majority of people go along with it. I'm sure I do too, in ways that I'm not criticizing!

I pirated software when I was a kid. As an adult today I buy licenses to free software, subscribe to patreons or substacks of people who produce content I use or follow, etc. It's not a ton, but I try to do my part to support individuals.

With the Spruce Eats example, it's not absolute junk. I'm sure some recipes on that site are great. But they are loaded with SEO junk, and Spruce Eats is owned by People mag that also owns All Recipes, Southern Living, Food & Wine magazine, etc. My longtime favorite cooking site was Serious Eats--and it sold to People magazine in 2020.

There are efficiencies to this situation, and it's certainly more profitable for People to not have competition, but the end result is bland, corporate, annoyingly SEO-packed, and it makes Serious Eats, All Recipes, Food & Wine, Spruce Eats, etc., all feel the same.

And yeah, everyone, self included, is complicit. It's not purelty a regulatory problem.

The person who posts 24/7 on Slashdot complaining that a stupid opinion didn't get modded up? Uh, you must new here?

According to Apple, as of February 2026, 90% of all currently running iOS devices are on either iOS 26 (current release) or iOS 18 (previous release), while 10% are running something earlier.

iOS 15, 16, and 17 covers ~10% of all iOS users and are all actively patched for security bugs. (Presumably there is a tiny fraction of people running something before iOS 15.)

iOS 15 supports iPhone 6s devices first released in 2015.

So, Apple is supporting their iPhone hardware for at least 11 years right now.

Now, how much further would you, Drinkypoo, force them to make updates for? Should it go all the way back to iOS 1 in 2007? Sure, only a few hobbyists may be running those devices, but what does that matter. Does your dictat apply to all companies that release software packages? Should every company that has ever released a piece of software be forced to patch _every revision level_, separately, forever? How do you define what they could "easily support" and "any significant number of people"? I'm really curious how you imagine your system working. It sure sounds like it would put a lot of small and open source developers out of business.

Right back at you--I agree with you. It's a scary loop. I hated the Google Gemini popup at the top of search results, and yet, recently, I'm finding myself using them.

I'm terrified of the day when ads are 100% generated on the fly for the viewer's exact demographic and likes and dislikes. I'm sure that's coming. Talk about dystopian..