hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Agreed. seatbelt/sandbox-exec has been “deprecated” for many, many years yet it still underlies all of the system’s sandboxing and Claude et al. use it for their own sandboxes. (And so do I — writing seatbelt rules is the only chance I get to write lisp-flavored anything these days.)

Similarly, launchctl has long-deprecated subcommands. I initially tried using the new subcommands, ran into issues, and told myself I should have known the “deprecated” ones were the way to go, now and forward.

The greed is as endless as the earth is old.

"can't" here isn't really the right word. They obviously could, in the same way that a company making $4.5 million could.

But there's a near infinite number of things they could do; they're constantly choosing which to actually do.

AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am.

Not working in a $4.5T company but often I found that people rather don’t _want_ to maintain the code than can’t

Refusing to maintain something isn't some sort of 'poorness signal', it's a wealth-neutral choice that could have any number of contextual drivers. Apple may not be eligible for 'too poor to maintain it' but invalidating one potential motivation leaves many others unaddressed and offers no useful argument against removal.

This is one of the things the new `diskutil image` subcommand mentioned in the article supports: `diskutil image attach ram://${size}m`.

RAM itself is deprecated. All the new systems have about one fourth of the RAM they had two years ago.

Something about some insider B2B deals for data centers, blah blah blah.

I expect a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs, and GPUs to hit the scene within about two years, after the AI boom goes bust.

It's just not worth it for individuals to volunteer their time for the benefit of the world's most valuable company.

We’ve received many an email urging us to reach out to Apple via Feedback Assistant. We of course have, multiple times. We’re told that we will strike gold if we just resubmit a bug report to some other part of the company. Yet, the APIs are still broken, and break again with new releases. Sometimes they get back to us to clarify something, often they do not. Some things have been fixed, most have not.

I understand the realities of sifting through millions of reports, but the futility of being told to report harder and fighting with UX breaking bugs does not inspire confidence in Apple’s software teams. The bugs I am referring to are interactions where an app cannot update automatically or manually if you set this one flag, or your socket never fires any callbacks if you set the one cool flag, or this view mostly always fires a callback on dismissal, but not always. Some things we can work around, with varying degrees of effort. Some we cannot. It is very clear to me that nobody tests the things we run into, for I cannot imagine how anyone would let this stuff pass into production otherwise.

Gotta pump those metrics for the PMs

Sometimes I almost believe there are whole sections of the Apple Ring building where the employees are so immersed in IOS that they're unaware MacOS exists.

Tahoe has destroyed macOS performance. I’m running a maxed out last gen intel and was getting stuttering and slide showing straight out of the update. It was completely unusable until I turned on reduced transparency.

Colleagues on much better spec’d M1/2/3 all noted similar, but not quite so drastic, slow downs.

The hugest issue is search appears to be universal broken. Spotlight doesn’t work, finder doesn’t work, email doesn’t work. The other day I had to login to Gmail through the web app for the first time in about 5 years to find an email I knew existed that mail decided didn’t exist.

Insult to injury is the search indexing service appears to be somewhat responsible for slowdowns. It’s right up there with the famous “windows updating in the background” slowdowns.

Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.

Diskutil has been around for over a decade and slowly getting features that hdiutil was missing.

Things change but this is hardly some sort of sudden rug pull by Apple.

Given Apple's reputation as of late, I was mildly shocked to learn that I could connect a SATA optical drive to my Mac with a USB-SATA bridge, right click on an image in the Finder, and tell it to burn the image to DVD. This is under the latest beta of macOS.

You can call it incidental if you want, but it generally takes some effort to ensure everything works. That's especially true when you consider how much has changed since optical drives were common.

As for other forms of disk images, such as software distribution, those are still a common thing in macOS.

Any reason to "upgrade"? I am still on Sonoma and don't see a point updating the system.

Consumer electronics, what do you expect ...

this ones gonna fuck me up. i actually think this one is going to destroy some goodwill, it specifically is worth maintaining...forever. and they have the resources to do it.

If diskutil actually did everything OP looks for that was available in hdiutil, that's correct. If you read the post though, you'll see that diskutil has many limitations compared to its predecessor.

diskutil is for disks (e.g., volumes) while hdiutil is for disk images ("file system as a file"). They're not two versions of the same thing, so it doesn't make sense to dub deprecating hdiutil as "progress."

Progress is when we make things worse just because we can.

Username relevant as always.