There comes a point when every developer drops support for older software and to me this makes sense. I do find it surprising, however, why a developer would drop support for iOS 12 less than 4 weeks after iOS 13 came out and when certainly iOS 13 has not yet been adopted as widely as it will be in another 3 or 4 months. I guess as long as somebody with iOS 12 or earlier simply doesn’t get the app update and can continue to use the app (I am talking about apps in general and not necessarily just Overcast now) then that is OK, what would be not so good is if somebody got the update on their iOS 12 device and the app would no longer work afterwards. Dark Mode, for example, is an iOS 13 feature so it of course makes sense that it wouldn’t work in iOS 12 or earlier, but it is not like when Apple announced only 64 bit apps would be supported going forward and there came a point when apps which had been abandoned by their developer just didn’t work any more or disappeared from the app store.
Best regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2019 8:46 AM To: [email protected]; Mary Otten <[email protected]> Subject: Re: If you like Overcast it seems you now need iOS 13 I never said that developers won't support older versions of IOS, but when we're talking about a few percentage points of the market, I just pointed out why some developers would find it economically advantageous to drop support for older versions of IOS. https://medium.com/marino-software/why-you-should-stop-supporting-older-os-versions-ba55115dd16 On 10/12/19 10:28 PM, Mary Otten wrote: A couple of the apps I have on my phone have recently had updates. And they have talked about providing fixes for things on iOS 10 and 11. So, Christopher, I think you’re out in left field here on this one. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 12, 2019, at 8:05 PM, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Well, Apple pretty much forces everyone to upgrade to the latest version of IOS, and imagine how much Apple and app developers save when they don't have to test their apps on older versions of IOS or provide support for older versions of IOS. All the app developers lose is those customers running on devices that don't support the latest version of IOS. You frequently here from developers how expensive and time consuming it is to develop on Android when they have to worry about so many devices and so many versions of Android. On 10/12/19 8:09 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: I just thought I mention this, a recent update to Overcast, a popular Podcast app, mentions iOS 13 is now required for this app. I find it interesting how some apps drop support apparently for even iOS 12 already and I wonder why this is. 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