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Google/Android doesn't care much about backward compatibility and broke programs released on Pixel 3 in Pixel 7. (the interdiction of 32bit-only apps is 2019 on
by phh 2y ago
Google/Android doesn't care much about backward compatibility and broke programs released on Pixel 3 in Pixel 7. (the interdiction of 32bit-only apps is 2019 on Play Store, Pixel 7 is first 64bits only device, while Google still released 32bits only device in 2023...). They quite regularly break apps in new Android versions (despite their infrastructure to handle backward compatibility), and app developers are used to brace themselves around Android & Pixel releases
- reissbaker 2y agoGenerally I've found Google to care much more about not breaking old apps compared to Apple, which often expects developers to rebuild apps for OS updates or else the apps stop working entirely (or buy entirely new machines to get OS updates at all, e.g. the Intel/Apple Silicon transition). Google isn't on the level of Windows "we will watch for specific binaries and re-introduce bugs in the kernel specifically for those binaries that they depend on" in terms of backwards compatibility, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they don't care. I'm not sure whether that's better or worse: there's definitely merit to Apple's approach, since it keeps them able to iterate quickly on UX and performance by dropping support for the old stuff.