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It’s also an insidious way to make perfectly good hardware obsolete. As Apple upgrades the OS, they slowly drop support for older hardware. This is usually just
by callalex 3y ago
It’s also an insidious way to make perfectly good hardware obsolete. As Apple upgrades the OS, they slowly drop support for older hardware. This is usually justifiable, that’s just how OSs work for a variety of reasons.
However it also means that if all apps have to target the latest OS just to get some UI features, they will quickly end up dropping support for older hardware as well.
If you want a good example of this, check out the download page for Calibre, a simple app that helps to manage and convert eBooks.
- ghostpepper 3y agoApple provides longer support windows than most android manufacturers. If you don’t need the latest features then there’s nothing forcing you to throw away a working device.
- callalex 3y agoBut there is pressure forcing you to abandon functioning hardware, that’s my whole point. Obviously nobody should expect OS updates forever, but third party software stops supporting old hardware that they would run fine on because of the way that the runtime tightly couples with the OS.