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This is only going to get worse as newer iOS versions drop support for older hardware, especially iPads. It is doubly concerning since Apple bans browsers from
by 0x0 9y ago
This is only going to get worse as newer iOS versions drop support for older hardware, especially iPads. It is doubly concerning since Apple bans browsers from the app store unless they just use the iOS-provided webkit engine for, so these devices are stuck with legacy Mobile Safari versions for the end of time.
As more and more modern iDevices become legacy while still being perhaps "powerful enough", I think we will start to see a persistent population of web users similar to the clan of IE6 users that took forever to shake off.
- linopolus 9y agoOh right, of course few years old android phones can still be updated officially (-> by the average user, too), being way better this way.
- CharlesW 9y ago> This is only going to get worse as newer iOS versions drop support for older hardware, especially iPads. I don't think that it's fair to say it's going to get worse, in the sense that it's as bad as it's going to get right now. And it's not too bad right now. Apple is quite good about support for older devices. For example, iOS 11 supports 4-year-old devices, and that's even somewhat of a special case since it's dropping 32-bit support. People use iOS devices older than 4 years old, but it's not a huge burden to keep a handful iOS 10 and iOS 9 devices around for development and testing. Certainly, it's a wonderland compared to testing on Android.