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Comment by oefrha | Hacker News Reader

I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).

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"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.

> 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.

So in reality, AI has not changed your productivity at all, because you are using the extra time you saved to post on HN

Whose to say that more HN posting isn't more productive? /s

That was the joke, yes.

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.

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

The greed is as endless as the earth is old.

Is it also not greedy to demand virtually unlimited support from companies? Why should Apple spend money on this random utility that virtually nobody uses?

Because I use it and pay them money for that?

Yes, you've made the right call trusting Apple with this, the company with famously-good backwards-compatibility and long-lived support for third-party software /s

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