I have seen this...so many times. I've been an iOS developer since the App Store became a thing 8 or whatever years ago, and the amount of people I've seen wil

I have seen this...so many times. I've been an iOS developer since the App Store became a thing 8 or whatever years ago, and the amount of people I've seen willing to only test applications on devices only 1-2 generations behind, if that, is shocking. What's more offensive, shocking, and actually confusing is that, yes, management is usually the one saying this kind of thing. The reason that confuses me, is that you'd think, I mean, if I was in a management position at a mobile-related startup, one of the first things I'd do is have someone on my team do some market research to provide statistics on the current state of iOS device and version usage, and buy a freaking heapload of test devices, in all the different resolutions and variants. Dismissing your users because they're not 'smart' enough to have a newer model is, as mentioned in the article, essentially blaming these people for the circumstances in their lives that leave them unable to, or is simply insulting their intelligence. I still use an iPhone 6S. Why? I need a headphone jack. I run an independent music label and rely on GarageBand on a multiple-a-day basis. Bluetooth audio's latency is too awful to be usable when playing instruments or mixing/EQ'ing tracks, and furthermore, I'm not about to replace my $300 studio-quality headphones for some shitty bluetooth alternative, or drag some tiny dongle around I'll need to adapt the headphones. Does this make me 'not smart'? I think the exact opposite. I couldn't use a new iPhone the way I have for the previous 6-8 generations before it. There are dozens of reasons why people prefer to keep older models of devices. My 2011 MacBook Pro is still my daily Logic Pro driver, and I even still do a bunch of iOS development on it, because, gasp, I was able to open it up and upgrade the RAM to 16GB, remove the original hard drive, put in a 512GB SSD, remove the optical drive, and replace it with a 2TB HDD...which, if I'd bought a 2017/2018 and felt like the 8 or 16GB that came with it wasn't enough, I might as well throw out the window for all it's upgradeability. Then let's talk about software - most of the people I know actively avoid software updates on their devices because they either don't know if it will hurt their device, or they simply actively like it the way it is already, and don't want to be forced into whatever changes the devs and managers felt like this time around. People like what works for them. And they don't like change. tl;dr - Highly intelligent people have highly intelligent reasons to stick with their older devices and software. Hipster managers who think they're 'too cool' to see this piss me right off.