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If you are selling a 100 copies a month this forced refactor could be used to add additional features and revenue streams to the app. I see the annoyance with a

If you are selling a 100 copies a month this forced refactor could be used to add additional features and revenue streams to the app. I see the annoyance with a forced move but I personally vote for better performance vs legacy app support.

khedoros1 9y ago
Why not both, with different versions of the app exposed to users of different versions of iOS? Or are there not enough people running 5 year old hardware to make it worth anyone's while?
- scarface74 9y ago
  They already do allow both. They did not announce that they were dropping App Store support for older devices. Right now you can download older apps on devices running iOS 5 -- released in 2011.
  - khedoros1 9y ago
    Hmm. I guess that most app devs remove older versions of their apps when they upload newer ones. I've got an iPod Touch that I abandoned years ago because searches for apps come up exclusively with results that were incompatible with it. Apps would bug me to update, but then present me with a newly-incompatible version.
    - scarface74 9y ago
      It's not the devs that remove older apps. Apple keeps older versions of the apps around when you submit a new one. Now if by "older" iPod touch you mean the first gen one. I can also confirm that Apple does not allow you to go back that far. Around January of this year, I reset my first gen iPad running 5.x and was able to download and use older versions of Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, the CW, Spotify, Plex, YouTube, Facebook (?) and Google Drive. Also most of Apple's downloadable apps still work - Pages, Numbers, and Keynote (?). Most games will not work. Edit: I just noticed you said that you abandoned your old iPod touch years ago because searches came up empty. Apple didn't always allow you to download older versions easily. https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/previous-version-ios-apps https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/previous-version-ios-apps

khedoros1 9y ago

Why not both, with different versions of the app exposed to users of different versions of iOS? Or are there not enough people running 5 year old hardware to make it worth anyone's while?

scarface74 9y ago
They already do allow both. They did not announce that they were dropping App Store support for older devices. Right now you can download older apps on devices running iOS 5 -- released in 2011.
- khedoros1 9y ago
  Hmm. I guess that most app devs remove older versions of their apps when they upload newer ones. I've got an iPod Touch that I abandoned years ago because searches for apps come up exclusively with results that were incompatible with it. Apps would bug me to update, but then present me with a newly-incompatible version.
  - scarface74 9y ago
    It's not the devs that remove older apps. Apple keeps older versions of the apps around when you submit a new one. Now if by "older" iPod touch you mean the first gen one. I can also confirm that Apple does not allow you to go back that far. Around January of this year, I reset my first gen iPad running 5.x and was able to download and use older versions of Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, the CW, Spotify, Plex, YouTube, Facebook (?) and Google Drive. Also most of Apple's downloadable apps still work - Pages, Numbers, and Keynote (?). Most games will not work. Edit: I just noticed you said that you abandoned your old iPod touch years ago because searches came up empty. Apple didn't always allow you to download older versions easily. https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/previous-version-ios-apps https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/previous-version-ios-apps