Since you're asking... Had I updated to iOS 7, every single animation on my phone would have become jaggy, and the camera would just take forever (instead of current 15 seconds) to load.
Oh wait, my iPhone 35s doesn't support iOS 7 at all (for these reasons). But I know people with iPhone 4 who don't upgrade because iOS 7 lags too much even on iPhone 4.
Of course we gotta update our devices once in a while, but for those of us who don't live in the US and buy them unsubsidized, it costs some money. All I'm saying is, there are some reasons people won't upgrade right away even if they'd hell like to. Whether to support them for a while is up to you of course.
edit: and there's this iPod Touch thing of course.
Yeah, there really isn't that much excuse for all those people out there with a 4th generation iPod touch not to upgrade immediately given that Apple licenses Amazon's one-click purchase patent: they are just one button tap away from a 5th generation iPod touch, and then they can use iOS 7... that's pretty lazy ;P.
And at another thread here people were saying how they add a fake hardware requirement (e.g front facing camera) just to deny people from installing in older phones because 'it run slow there'.
If you want to deny people from installing on older devices, you can just set the target to iOS 7, meaning you need iOS 7 to install it. Doing that means it can only be installed on iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, and iPod Touch 5th gen and later.
Glad it was helpful to you. Tell me - do you build views in RubyMotion programmatically? If so, I suppose that -[UIViewController topLayoutGuide] would be useful, right?
Eventually, yes, most users upgrade. But Apple's stats showed about 6% of users still on iOS 5 a full year after iOS 6 was released. I'd imagine we'll see similar numbers with users going from iOS 6 to 7 - lots of them won't upgrade for a full year, and some will never upgrade. Mixpanel is currently showing 36% of users on iOS 6 - that's not an insignificant number. I'll be supporting iOS 6 for probably another year.
[+] [-] eonil|12 years ago|reply
But, should we support users who don't even update iOS - which needs only one button tapping? Wishing them to search and install extra apps?
[+] [-] danabramov|12 years ago|reply
Oh wait, my iPhone 35s doesn't support iOS 7 at all (for these reasons). But I know people with iPhone 4 who don't upgrade because iOS 7 lags too much even on iPhone 4.
Of course we gotta update our devices once in a while, but for those of us who don't live in the US and buy them unsubsidized, it costs some money. All I'm saying is, there are some reasons people won't upgrade right away even if they'd hell like to. Whether to support them for a while is up to you of course.
edit: and there's this iPod Touch thing of course.
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