Fantastical, Readdle and Apple Calendar have slightly fresher UI that could be good inspiration.

These being open, you can keep using the old models indefinitely for as long as there are providers offering them.

:)

The AI tone in the announcement is light enough to be barely noticeable, but it’s there. Note that posting AI-generated comments to HN is explicitly forbidden.

It is a bit outdated (scores ± 40% lower), but smart enough for a lot of coding tasks, and can cost under 1/10th of Sol.

https://mimo.mi.com/models/en-US/mimo-v2.5-pro-ultraspeed

I use several outdated apps, including Filmic Legacy etc, and am happy - I got what I paid for. Yes, they might stop working at some point. The only thing that bothers me is when the app is intentionally crippled or modified to "encourage" upgrades when it's working perfectly fine.

These have been my and friends' observations since LLM-assisted coding started picking up steam. Go's simplicity, consistency, stdlib and tooling seem to make it very reliable for LLM generation, and it was especially true during late 2025 / earlier this year when frontier models weren't as strong; might not be as noticeable now.

After a year, I don't think anyone is bothered if an app becomes unsupported for whatever reason. Usually what happens is the opposite - developer unnecessarily cripples an existing, perfectly working app, to try to milk some more revenue out of it.

This is an especially moot point now that most platform API upgrades are $1 of LLM work away.

This was the case with the iPod, iPod touch, iPad, iPhone, Macbook, Macbook Air, Apple Watch and Airpods after his death, and probably more; these are all products that created categories of their own when they were first released.

That’s a wild mischaracterization. Steve Job’s “reality distortion field” was coined after the ability to get people to achieve the impossible and deliver better products; quite the opposite of funneling money into dead end ideas.