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It's much easier to support only a handful of apps on an old SDK than millions. Those a few probably only utilize 30% APIs the SDK exposes, meaning you can safe
by CrendKing 4y ago
It's much easier to support only a handful of apps on an old SDK than millions. Those a few probably only utilize 30% APIs the SDK exposes, meaning you can safely assume the rest 70% can be removed from maintenance list. They can also one-on-one work with those few companies on deprecation and migration.
Basically a cost saving move.
- lapcat 4y agoYou're totally making up numbers of out thin air.
- Naracion 4y ago> They can also one-on-one work with those few companies on deprecation and migration. > Basically a cost saving move. Working 1-on-1 with companies to determine what to keep and what not is anything but cost saving, by my estimate.
- lytefm 4y agoThey don't need to work 1 on 1. Any uploaded app is automatically analyzed for API usage. At least I've been getting warnings about deprecated or unsupported APIs in my apps once in a while and other developers too - even if it sometimes seems like crude string matching rather than checking for actual usage of the API