>It is not hostile to them in any way, shape or form. For some reason this cliche is most often repeated by the people who never wrote a single line of code for iOS or MacOS.
Maybe the word "hostile" is the wrong word. But I have apps on windows that ran on 95 that still work to this day without having to be "rewritten". It's no surprise it's often repeated by people who never wrote a single line code for an OS that they have come to expect will change things so dramatically that they will have to spend more time and effort supporting those OS changes and not creating software.
> But I have apps on windows that ran on 95 that still work to this day without having to be "rewritten".
And that's the reason why Apple is reaping these benefits, while moving to ARM is completely at odds with what Microsoft stands for and promises i.e. long term software backwards compatibility.
Maybe the word "hostile" is the wrong word. But I have apps on windows that ran on 95 that still work to this day without having to be "rewritten". It's no surprise it's often repeated by people who never wrote a single line code for an OS that they have come to expect will change things so dramatically that they will have to spend more time and effort supporting those OS changes and not creating software.