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Common industry practice for iOS development is to support the most recent two major versions.
Yes, but why?
It maximizes the user market. https://iosref.com/ios-usage
Losing a potential 10% of your market share because they’re 2 versions away is unquestionable for some companies.
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Yes, but why?
Guess I’ll have to say it. It maximizes the user market. https://iosref.com/ios-usage Losing a potential 10% of your market share because they’re 2 versions away is unquestionable for some companies.
It only says that 10% of your users can’t upgrade to the latest version of your app, which is a totally different proposition.
You say for some companies, this is unacceptable, which is obviously true.
It’s not obviously true for a lot of companies, so it’s worth questioning whether this is just a dogma that is handicapping developers and slowing progress in many cases.
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Guess I’ll have to say it. It maximizes the user market. https://iosref.com/ios-usage Losing a potential 10% of your market share because they’re 2 versions away is unquestionable for some companies.
That chart doesn’t say you lose 10% of your market share. It only says that 10% of your users can’t upgrade to the latest version of your app, which is a totally different proposition. You say for some companies, this is unacceptable, which is obviously true. It’s not obviously true for a lot of companies, so it’s worth questioning whether this is just a dogma that is handicapping developers and slowing progress in m…
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Common industry practice for iOS development is to support the most recent two major versions.
Yes, but why?
Sync really needs to be a feature of the web platform. A web app should be able to ask the user to sync its data accross devices. There's no reason you should have to worry about sync and authentication when you make an offline first web app.
Er, how would that even work? Apple can sync over iCloud. What are Firefox users going to sync over?
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Guess I’ll have to say it. It maximizes the user market. https://iosref.com/ios-usage Losing a potential 10% of your market share because they’re 2 versions away is unquestionable for some companies.
That chart doesn’t say you lose 10% of your market share. It only says that 10% of your users can’t upgrade to the latest version of your app, which is a totally different proposition. You say for some companies, this is unacceptable, which is obviously true. It’s not obviously true for a lot of companies, so it’s worth questioning whether this is just a dogma that is handicapping developers and slowing progress in m…
Honestly I'm thrilled anytime I'm working for a client that has a iOS(-2) rule versus an iOS(-4) rule.
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Er, how would that even work? Apple can sync over iCloud. What are Firefox users going to sync over?
Obviously the browser has to provide this backend. Browsers already sync passwords, history, bookmarks, extension data, they should offer sync as a feature for the web app as well.
Compare to browser bookmarks. Not a "web feature".
I can imagine starting out with SwiftData @Model's, but then redefining the @Model macro to work with another backend -- even deploying the same models to different backends on different platforms (e.g., CoreData on iOS and MySQL on Linux).
"API-compatible" now includes attributes. This could be a great opportunity for alternatives to the CoreData stack.
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Guess I’ll have to say it. It maximizes the user market. https://iosref.com/ios-usage Losing a potential 10% of your market share because they’re 2 versions away is unquestionable for some companies.
That chart doesn’t say you lose 10% of your market share. It only says that 10% of your users can’t upgrade to the latest version of your app, which is a totally different proposition. You say for some companies, this is unacceptable, which is obviously true. It’s not obviously true for a lot of companies, so it’s worth questioning whether this is just a dogma that is handicapping developers and slowing progress in m…
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Is there an alternative that offers longer? Apple do seem to be shortening a bit, but as an app developer, we generally support iOS 2 versions behind unless there’s a particularly good feature we want to add to our workflow. I don’t see much of interest to us in 17, I’m surprised there weren’t any major updates to arkit considering the announcement of Vision Pro
Samsung is ca on par or slightly worse (depends what year you are looking at), but it’s hard to compare because Android updates are more fine grained and can partially be done without releasing the whole OS. With Samsung you at least know how many releases you‘ll get and how many years of security updates a phone is good for. And afterwards you might be able to put Ubuntu or Lineage on it. I think, as a dev, it’s rea…
Jetpack is cool, but the reason it exists is because the Android OS update picture is appalling. Anyway it doesn’t really address security updates.