The technical debt will catch Apple, it's not if, but when, and from my view it's getting worse with every release. I'm curious to see if Google's willingness to just abandon things that are holding them back will pay off.
Apple's obviously not just letting the technical debt pile up. They've put a lot of effort in to addressing it in a lot of areas. Some of it hasn't resulted in a usable replacement (ZFS, discoveryd), but other areas have been modernized (LLVM, launchd, Core whatever frameworks, Gatekeeper).
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The technical debt will catch Apple, it's not if, but when, and from my view it's getting worse with every release. I'm curious to see if Google's willingness to just abandon things that are holding them back will pay off.
Apple's obviously not just letting the technical debt pile up. They've put a lot of effort in to addressing it in a lot of areas. Some of it hasn't resulted in a usable replacement (ZFS, discoveryd), but other areas have been modernized (LLVM, launchd, Core whatever frameworks, Gatekeeper).