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At the risk of painting all of HN with a very broad brush, I find the calls in this thread to support iOS 6 at 13% usage amusing, given the countless times I've
by JunkDNA 13y ago
At the risk of painting all of HN with a very broad brush, I find the calls in this thread to support iOS 6 at 13% usage amusing, given the countless times I've seen arguments here to drop support for old IE versions with similar adoption numbers over the years.
When small team ships a product, they have to make tough calls. The reality is that some day very soon, the number of iOS 6 users will be almost zero. Any delay or time spent making the app work on iOS 6 is time that can't be spent on the core features of the app, bug fixes, and (importantly) testing new beta versions of iOS that we know with 100% certainty will be dominant on the platform in the future.
- crazygringo 13y agoI do think you are painting HN, and software development, with a very broad brush indeed. Every time people call to drop old IE versions, there seem to be an equal number of HN'ers saying, you people aren't living in the real world, where we do have to support old versions of IE, because there are customers there. Furthermore, IE8 is nearly five years old, but many of us are still supporting it for users who can't upgrade from XP. Whereas iOS6 was supplanted less than 6 months ago. And many people are unable to upgrade for hardware reasons. Of course a team has to make "tough calls". But that doesn't mean people still using iOS6 can't inquire about it. And sometimes, supporting a previous version doesn't even require that much work -- it depends on the particular set of functionality.