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It’s relatively easy to justify supporting only one or two major versions back if you’re writing an iOS app. There are stats out there on how many active device
by rogerrogerr 2y ago
It’s relatively easy to justify supporting only one or two major versions back if you’re writing an iOS app. There are stats out there on how many active devices are on what version, it’s pretty striking. Especially compared to Android.
- coro_1 2y agoAgreed of course. Though currently iOS 16 is the standard and that goes back about 2.5 years. Which is sort of a shift from many major apps supporting an iOS dating back 4-5 years.
- pcl 2y agoiOS 16 is supported on devices back to iPhone 8, which came out in September 2017. That’s seven and a half years ago. Apple has done a good job of supporting old devices with new OS releases; they also subset old OS’s. That seems like a fair trade.
- marcellus23 2y agoWhere are you getting these numbers from? Do you have stats to back them up? When I worked as an app developer we would only support back 2 or 3 versions, and that was 5 years ago. Anecdotally I have not noticed a shift to only supporting more recent OSes.
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