e41 – Deprecated at WWDC 2016

There were no big "end of an era" announcements at WWDC, but a few 30-year-old technologies are now officially on their way out. We say goodbye to catalog B-trees, naming everything after NeXTSTEP, and more.

Followup

• The Motorola Envoy ran Magic Cap
• iCloud Documents and Desktop sync

Deprecated technologies

• Hierarchical File System
  • HFS+ 🛎
  • Hard Disk 20
  • tebibytes, exabytes, etc.
  • Technical Note TN1150
  • Where_have_all_my_files_gone?
    • …the song!
  • Disk First Aid
  • Apple File System (APFS)
• Apple Filing Protocol
  • AppleShare
  • SMB/CIFS and Samba

Name changes

• "OS X"
  • Macintosh System Software version numbers
• "NS" prefixes
  • Swift 3.0
    • naming guidelines announcement
  • NeXTSTEP
  • Objective-C
    • Stepstone
  • NSHipster