Have you ever burned your hands by some new and immature technology?

Question

I often hear people saying you shouldn\'t rush into adopting new technologies until they have become stable, tried and tested. There is even a joke on how it takes 3 versions to

Answer 1

64 bit Carbon APIs on Mac OS X: I didn't get burnt personally on this, but I have a friend working for a big software company that spent a year converting almost all of their code to use the 64 bit Carbon APIs only to find out at WWDC that those APIs were no longer going to be made available.