Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@chockenberry The fact that a method exists doesn’t mean that (a) it’s public in that version of the OS or (b) it works."

Country	Code	For customers of
United States	40404	(any)
Canada	21212	(any)
United Kingdom	86444	Vodafone, Orange, 3, O2
Brazil	40404	Nextel, TIM
Haiti	40404	Digicel, Voila
Ireland	51210	Vodafone, O2
India	53000	Bharti Airtel, Videocon, Reliance
Indonesia	89887	AXIS, 3, Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata
Italy	4880804	Wind
3424486444	Vodafone
» See SMS short codes for other countries

Peter N Lewis ‏@peternlewis 13 Aug 2012

Seriously? There is no non-deprecated way in 10.8 to figure out what version of Mac OS X you're on? Parse the SystemVersion.plist is it???
1 like
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 14 Aug 2012

@peternlewis I suppose “sw_vers -productVersion” is a little better than parsing SystemVersion.plist but too bad about Gestalt.
1 like
Lich Bleach-Skull ‏@siegel 14 Aug 2012

@mjtsai @peternlewis No doubt if you file a radar, the response will be "applications don't need to know the system version". :-(
Rainer Brockerhoff ‏@rbrockerhoff 14 Aug 2012

@siegel @mjtsai @peternlewis [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] operatingSystemVersionString] is non-deprecated, though "not OK for parsing".
1 like
Count Franken ‏@chockenberry 14 Aug 2012

@rbrockerhoff @siegel @mjtsai @peternlewis I think it's better to take the approach web developers use: check for classes & methods instead…

‏@mjtsai

@chockenberry The fact that a method exists doesn’t mean that (a) it’s public in that version of the OS or (b) it works.

9:19 AM - 14 Aug 2012

Michael TsaiVerified account