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I think as a user you shouldn't need to see or know anything about APIs or OS internals. Your apps should just work.


And yet there are decades of apps not supporting new UI features, being unstable or insecure because they were slow to adopt new APIs. This is a balance: Windows font rendering, color management, and resolution scaling took ages to stabilize because things working reduces pressure on the vendors to update.




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