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maybe my hoarding of old ipads will finally pay off? i have about 40 of them if anyone needs em

by the_cat_kittles 4y ago

sitzkrieg 4y ago
how the heck did you end up with that many
- tylergetsay 4y ago
  my guess is they make iPad apps
  - sitzkrieg 4y ago
    me too but four zero? imagine the rats nest of chargers lol
    - munchenphile 4y ago
      Not the same game, but I used to work as an Android dev for an imaging company. We had to physically test our apps in meatspace with the real device camera and we had to support hundreds of devices. I had hundreds of Android devices hooked to a dozen or so dev machines in a test farm. A test script would run. The active device’s screen would turn green. Then a QA engineer would have to physically scan a bunch of different things. Then the next active device would turn green and they’d do it again. And again. And again. I probably could have automated more with a moving conveyor belt and a custom lighting system, but I would’ve put a lot of QA people out of work… This was during the “bridge” period between android.hardware.camera and android.hardware.camera2, so I had to write a wrapper library bridging the two APIs. About half of our users were on the old API, half on the new. It was a mess. There was no CameraX provided by Google at the time. Obviously Android has way more device diversity, but I can easily see 40 iPads getting accumulated by even a small iOS shop that’s taking their user experience seriously. The company that I worked for was actually quite small, yet we amassed dozens of iDevices and hundreds of Android devices. The CTO would require every camera crash to be fixed, even if it were on a random developing market junk phone. We had so many single-device workaround in the camera wrapper lib it was insane…
- the_cat_kittles 4y ago
  ewaste recycling
- tluyben2 4y ago
  Not the PP, but for instance, I get everything from the people in my town; every laptop, phone, tablet that they bought a newer substitute for. I have a museum for 60-90’s systems and I never found modern (after 2000) that interesting, however, now I have 100s of those too including many iPads.
lostmsu 4y ago
Are any of them still viable for iOS development?
- mysterydip 4y ago
  No. Apps are limited to newer iOS versions, which are limited to newer hardware.

maybe my hoarding of old ipads will finally pay off? i have about 40 of them if anyone needs em

sitzkrieg 4y ago

how the heck did you end up with that many

tylergetsay 4y ago
my guess is they make iPad apps
- sitzkrieg 4y ago
  me too but four zero? imagine the rats nest of chargers lol
  - munchenphile 4y ago
    Not the same game, but I used to work as an Android dev for an imaging company. We had to physically test our apps in meatspace with the real device camera and we had to support hundreds of devices. I had hundreds of Android devices hooked to a dozen or so dev machines in a test farm. A test script would run. The active device’s screen would turn green. Then a QA engineer would have to physically scan a bunch of different things. Then the next active device would turn green and they’d do it again. And again. And again. I probably could have automated more with a moving conveyor belt and a custom lighting system, but I would’ve put a lot of QA people out of work… This was during the “bridge” period between android.hardware.camera and android.hardware.camera2, so I had to write a wrapper library bridging the two APIs. About half of our users were on the old API, half on the new. It was a mess. There was no CameraX provided by Google at the time. Obviously Android has way more device diversity, but I can easily see 40 iPads getting accumulated by even a small iOS shop that’s taking their user experience seriously. The company that I worked for was actually quite small, yet we amassed dozens of iDevices and hundreds of Android devices. The CTO would require every camera crash to be fixed, even if it were on a random developing market junk phone. We had so many single-device workaround in the camera wrapper lib it was insane…
the_cat_kittles 4y ago
ewaste recycling
tluyben2 4y ago
Not the PP, but for instance, I get everything from the people in my town; every laptop, phone, tablet that they bought a newer substitute for. I have a museum for 60-90’s systems and I never found modern (after 2000) that interesting, however, now I have 100s of those too including many iPads.

lostmsu 4y ago

Are any of them still viable for iOS development?

mysterydip 4y ago
No. Apps are limited to newer iOS versions, which are limited to newer hardware.