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True most young lads, have this notion that only Microsoft keeps changing the thechnology stack, when actually all companies do the same.

As anyone noticed how many MacOS X APIs have been deprecated since the early days?

Or the API changes in Android?

Every corporation plays this game, as you point out.

I still remember the early COM days, where the only API was C based, and COM was called OLE.



"Or the API changes in Android?" At least Google releases the support library to overcome that


The support library allows you to use features of newer system releases on older systems. See also GDI+ for Win98/NT4 or Windows feature packs for example.

The API changing game is another problem - it does not allow you to use existing application with newer system. As far as I know, this does not happen on Android (for now).


There already a few deprecated API, which so far have not be removed, but until when?


Really?!

That is why you have to import android.support.* versus android.app. Which forces you to have some form of preprocessing in the Java code.

Plus the API for the action bar is still missing from the support library.




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