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Comment by abraham | Hacker News Reader

> Sucks that you buy something for feature X and few days later an update comes through getting rid of it.

You really shouldn't buy products because of an un-official feature hidden in a preview of a developer SDK.

would you have the same reaction if Microsoft/Apple actively blocks a user functionality that the device and software is capable of... official or unofficial the developer demonstrated that a scenario can work..why go out of way to block it.. looks like this is a new trend for Google - maps on Windows Phone, youtube app on Windows Phone....

Would you have the same reaction if you were using undocumented APIs in Windows or iPhone private APIs and then they changed them?

There is an unofficial way and that is putting your device in developer mode.

Would you have the same reaction if you were using undocumented APIs in Windows...

Microsoft is bad at many things, but until recently, they were very good at backward compatibility. They knew people were using undocumented APIs, so they went out of their way to preserve bug-for-bug compatibility in a lot of cases.

On the other hand, they also went out of their way to use undocumented APIs and API changes to give Word an advantage over Word Perfect....

MS has only been good at backwards compatibility when it is in their best interest. Usually because a major partner was the one using an undocumented API with millions of users. In this case it was a person hacking some code together on a product less than a month old with probably only a few thousand people using the app that broke.

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