It's amazing how pretty much every person in that thread refused to believe Apple would break it. This is not an accident, Apple did it deliberately - they warned about it, and then they did it.
Edit: And I get downmodded for this one too, which I expected. People clearly really like Apple and refuse to believe they would do this.
That you happened to be right is no vindication when the odds were 50/50 and you put forth no model for predicting the outcome.
Yes I know they used marketing speak to do it, but after a while you learn to decode it.
What isn't obvious is why you seem to find it so offensive and threatening.
Some people tried to say "they just don't support it", but that's not so, they broke it deliberately. (And I know it was deliberate because they said in advance that they would do it.)
So that's what surprised me so much - that people, (you for example), just don't care that they would do that. It's something microsoft does, and everyone hates them for it. Why don't people care when apple does it?
Suggesting that a company should avoid fixing bugs in it's software if it would potentially harm their competitors is a little bit on the silly side. I don't know of any business that operates on that principle.