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> Nobody was talking about Android. It matters in the current context. Developers have a much easier time targeting the latest and hottest on iOS, compared to
by Razengan 6y ago
> Nobody was talking about Android.
It matters in the current context. Developers have a much easier time targeting the latest and hottest on iOS, compared to the only other alternative.
> And the number of people still on 12 is significant.
Not for long if 14 is already 25% in less than a week, and most users upgrade to the latest versions soon enough.
- Dylan16807 6y ago> compared to the only other alternative Nobody was doing comparisons either. But for this topic shouldn't we be comparing to windows programming tools too? And those generally get to update their language runtimes all on their own, without waiting for the OS at all. > Not for long if 14 is already 25% in less than a week I don't understand that logic. I didn't say 13, I said 12. The release of 14 isn't going to suddenly get a significant number of people off 12. The number of users on 12 is going to drop over time but 12 is locked in as the final version for multiple percent of iphone owners in the US. It could be two more years before most companies are comfortable breaking compatibility with that to get some coding conveniences.
- myko 6y ago> It matters in the current context. Developers have a much easier time targeting the latest and hottest on iOS, compared to the only other alternative. As mentioned above this is not true. On Android developers can ship the latest and greatest to devices 4-5 years old because the first party libraries are distributed in such a way to enable that. SwiftUI/Combine are bundled with OS versions.