I'm not sure Fleksy is leaving that many people behind. The vast
majority of people have moved up to IOS 7. I think the people with a
real beef are those iPhone 3 users who can't move up to IOS 7 at all.
Fleksy is by no means the only app that predates IOS 7 which is now only
supported on IOS 7. Obviously, a developer would have to spend testing
resources on IOS 6 and IOS 7 if they're going to continue to support
both levels of the operating system. This cost alone may keep a small
company from supporting both operating systems. It's also my
understanding that Apple changes API's from version to version, so it's
not a given that there's no work involved in supporting both IOS 6 and
IOS 7.
Apple did take a beating when they rolled out IOS 7 updates
automatically to people whether they upgraded or wanted to upgrade or
not, so I'm sure they'd take a beating in the scenario you described
below. This doesn't mean it isn't a good business idea for Apple to keep
moving people up and for developers to assume everyone is on the latest.
This model has obviously been wildly successful for Apple, and there's a
lot of benefits for Apple, developers and users to all be on the latest
and greatest software.
On 12/11/2013 12:48 AM, Lucian Fratila wrote:
Honestly I can't think of any other app that with no prior notice pulled
support from a large chunk of its users (those on iOS 6 in this case).
Yes I have an iPhone 4 and no, I don't want to upgrade to 7 for an obvious
variety of reasons - and most certainly not because an app forces me to. What I
find absolutely mind-boggling is that we're talking here about an offline app,
that worked very well thank you on iOS 6 before.
Yes, I did contact Fleksy support and they simply told me that Fleksy version
1.9 (the last iOS 6 working version) is not supported anymore. As if they had
to!
Yes, there are apps that only work on iOS 7 these days. But they either started
on iOS 7, or they have a backend that no longer supports the iOS 6 version. As
far as I understand, the technology behind Fleksy is built-in inside the app
and does not require online presence (heck, if a typing app requires you to be
connected to their servers, then something is fishy big time).
So in short I find no excusable justification to what Fleksy did. They're lucky
their service is not high profile and they don't affect a real lot of paying
users. Just think the backlash that, say, Apple would get if suddenly iTunes
would no longer start on OS X pre-Mavericks, and would give you no option but
to upgrade, even on a 2007 laptop. Luckily for them Fleksy is no Apple. But at
this rate, I don't see them even turning profitable. What a shame when it's not
the technology that buries you, but poor customer support.
/end of rant
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