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Apple forces upgrades with a devious anti-feature: version-locked apps, combined with no OS updates for old devices. The system auto-updates your apps, whether
by pjlegato 11y ago
Apple forces upgrades with a devious anti-feature: version-locked apps, combined with no OS updates for old devices.
The system auto-updates your apps, whether you want to or not. Eventually, the newer apps simply refuse to run on older versions of the OS, and you can't get OS updates for that phone anymore.
The result is that to the extent that you care about using any apps, you have to buy a new phone, even though your old phone's hardware is still more than adequate in a technical sense.
- froo 11y agoI've not found this. My original iPad ran all of the apps that I use on my current one, it simply ran old versions of the apps. I only upgraded it about a month and a half ago simply because the screen failed (not bad for 5.5 years though). Agreed they don't support the OS anymore, but the bigger brand names (Facebook, Twitter, Netflix) still have apps that run perfectly fine on that hardware.
- petra 11y agoThis isn't true for iPhones according to many, but iPads last longer. I wonder why Apple deciced to play it like this.
- pjlegato 11y agoI discovered this one day on the street as I attempted to hail an Uber on my old iPhone 3GS. They had stopped releasing new OSes for the 3GS some time ago. The Uber app had been auto-upgraded and now simply announced that it refused to run on such an old OS. I was left standing there without transportation.