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The worst is that you can't update the browser, so you can't even use the modern web on devices that are left behind, and nobody besides Apple can help you, eve
by rekoil 4y ago
The worst is that you can't update the browser, so you can't even use the modern web on devices that are left behind, and nobody besides Apple can help you, even if they wanted to.
Thankfully with iOS 17 it looks like this will no longer be the case!
- scarface74 4y agoGood luck with trying to use a “modern web browser” on iPad 1 even if a third party one existed on an iPad 1 with 256MB of RAM
- rekoil 4y agoFair enough, the iPad 1 is ancient, but my comment applies to any iOS device stuck in iOS 12 or older. I'm thinking particularly of the lack of support for popular ES2020 features like nullish coalescing, which is simple to implement (but Apple prohibits developers from shipping browsers), and can technically be transpiled away, but is indeed more commonly seen in production code every day. There are a lot of 2014 iOS devices in this category, all with dual-core CPUs and 1GB RAM, which should be totally fine for simple web browsing in theory. E.g. iPads Air 1st gen and mini 3rd gen, as well as the hugely popular iPhone 6/6 Plus. Yes, these are old devices, and I don't suggest they continue to be used, but there is no performance-based reason they should be incapable of rendering a simple web site in 2022, provided someone were allowed to build a new browser for them.