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Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

Osmium wrote: post #7
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only devices that can’t run iOS 5 or newer are the original iPhone (2007), iPhone 3G (2008), 1st gen iPod touch (2007), and 2nd gen iPod touch (2008). Compared to later models, their share of the total iOS devices sold is very low. About 30 million iPhones of the first two generations were sold. About 20 million iPods touch of the first two generations were sold. Out of 550 million total iOS devices, that’s under…

This is debatable of course. Even though the 3GS can technically run iOS 6 even, whether it runs it well enough to be usable is sadly another question entirely. I do know I struggle to use my 3GS these days, though I wonder if that's in part due to App developers assuming people are running newer hardware as much as the OS itself... Either way, many people with older devices choose to keep them on older OS versions f…

iOS 5 works great on iPhone 3G S. If you’re having performance issues, you might want to free some space on your iPhone 3G S; that has been known to work miracles.

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by Osmium »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #11
Osmium wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is debatable of course. Even though the 3GS can technically run iOS 6 even, whether it runs it well enough to be usable is sadly another question entirely. I do know I struggle to use my 3GS these days, though I wonder if that's in part due to App developers assuming people are running newer hardware as much as the OS itself... Either way, many people with older devices choose to keep them on older OS versions f…

iOS 5 works great on iPhone 3G S. If you’re having performance issues, you might want to free some space on your iPhone 3G S; that has been known to work miracles.

Good to know. For some reason I didn't think iOS used the disk as a memory cache, so didn't think that would matter?

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by wwweston »

Osmium wrote: post #7
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only devices that can’t run iOS 5 or newer are the original iPhone (2007), iPhone 3G (2008), 1st gen iPod touch (2007), and 2nd gen iPod touch (2008). Compared to later models, their share of the total iOS devices sold is very low. About 30 million iPhones of the first two generations were sold. About 20 million iPods touch of the first two generations were sold. Out of 550 million total iOS devices, that’s under…

This is debatable of course. Even though the 3GS can technically run iOS 6 even, whether it runs it well enough to be usable is sadly another question entirely. I do know I struggle to use my 3GS these days, though I wonder if that's in part due to App developers assuming people are running newer hardware as much as the OS itself... Either way, many people with older devices choose to keep them on older OS versions f…

Anecdotal: I'm posting from a 3gs running iOS 6. I upgraded last year from 4.x, and performance has pretty much been a non-issue.

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by ben1040 »

M4v3R wrote: post #10
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #6

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Nope. All iPads support iOS 5 or higher. http://www.macworld.com/article/1162925/how_to_upgrade_your_...

Check your facts. http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/ Bottom of this page.

That's iOS 6, not iOS 5. The original iPad is EOL'd on iOS 5.

The list you were replying to was the list of devices from 2008 and earlier that are end-of-lifed on iOS 4. That is also the list of devices that you basically have to abandon if you begin targeting iOS 6 and iPhone 5.

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by lucaswagner »

M4v3R wrote: post #10
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. All iPads support iOS 5 or higher. http://www.macworld.com/article/1162925/how_to_upgrade_your_...

Check your facts. http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/ Bottom of this page.

That's for iOS 6. The first-generation iPad will still run iOS 5.1.1: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1521

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by MaxGabriel »

kennywinker wrote: post #3

The reason this is an issue at all is that in order to support te iPhone 5 screen you must drop support for everything before iOS 4.3. Many of the apps you see holding out are doing so because they have (or believe they have) a significant >4.3 user base. This got better when iOS 6 got jailbroken, but it's still an annoying forced obsolescence. The reason they did it this way is unclear as well.

There's definitely room for bias in the stats I've seen but virtually everyone reports almost no iOS 4 devices.

http://stats.unity3d.com/mobile/index-ios.html (Below iOS 5/Other: 1.2%) http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ (4.3: 1.6%) https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_frag/

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by jonknee »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #2

This has been known for over a month[1]. I’d say it’s good change. Within 2 months of when the iPhone 5 was released, about half of the apps I use most had received updates that optmized for the larger screen. After 7 months though, the remaining apps still haven’t been optimized, even though many of those apps did receive updates in the meantime. As of May 1st, a developer can’t just post a bugfix without also optim…

I don't know why it has taken this long. It should have been the case as soon as the iPhone 5 started shipping.

Re: Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

M4v3R wrote: post #10
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. All iPads support iOS 5 or higher. http://www.macworld.com/article/1162925/how_to_upgrade_your_...

Check your facts. http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/ Bottom of this page.

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