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Companies do all sorts of (IMO insane) things to their apps that reduce their reach. Ignoring accessibility is just one of them. I remember when I was in the app-writing business, and our devs would be constantly trying to bump up the minimum OS version supported. “See here, it says that only 10% of customer devices are on OS version 10.1 and below. We must bump our minimum version to 10.2 because us developers are t…
I suspect that stuff like accessibility and minimum OS version are not independent of the profitability of a customer, so it's not necessarily insane. For example, I'd suspect that people who stay on old iPhone's are less likely to spend money on apps. But it's a small, very unfounded suspicion. I'd be curious to see if anything works out though in how stuff like that lines up.
Re: Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
#301If you lose 5% of your customer base every min version bump, compounds fast.