{"id":14371,"date":"2016-05-05T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14371"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:12:38","slug":"apple-officially-discontinues-webobjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/apple-officially-discontinues-webobjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Officially Discontinues WebObjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/webobjects-dev\/2016\/May\/msg00005.html\">Hugi Thordarson<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-officially-discontinues-webobjects-2016-5\">\nKif Leswing<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/webobjects-dev\/2016\/May\/msg00005.html\"><p>We probably all know that WO&rsquo;s been practically dead to Apple for a long time, but unfortunately Apple has refused to state so officially (at least I don&rsquo;t recall there being an official statement).<\/p><p>Anyhow&#8230; In the past years I&rsquo;ve regularly sent letters to Tim Cook, asking about the state of WO (being the naggy guy I am) and recently, I was contacted by Apple executive relations regarding my questions. The guy I spoke to called a couple of times, at first, he had absolutely no idea what WO was but the second time he called, he had obtained information and had a clear statement: &ldquo;WebObjects is a discontinued product and will never be upgraded&rdquo;.<\/p><p>I know this information is extremely redundant, but I still wanted to tell you since it was something of a relief. Felt a little like the police calling you to let you know that they&rsquo;d found the remains of your friend that&rsquo;s been missing for 15 years and finally declared him dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-05-05): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/self_vs_this\/status\/728260991264378880\">Gianluca Bertani<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/self_vs_this\/status\/728260991264378880\"><p>So discontinued that they built iTunes Connect with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-05-14): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=11691781\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugi Thordarson (via Kif Leswing): We probably all know that WO&rsquo;s been practically dead to Apple for a long time, but unfortunately Apple has refused to state so officially (at least I don&rsquo;t recall there being an official statement).Anyhow&#8230; In the past years I&rsquo;ve regularly sent letters to Tim Cook, asking about the state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,653,1451,96,1252],"class_list":["post-14371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-itunes-connect","tag-sunset","tag-web","tag-webobjects"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14547,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}