OT : More than 180,000 iPhone apps won't be compatible with iOS 11

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‪More than 180,000 iPhone apps won't be compatible with iOS 11 http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/apple-ios-11-32-bit-apps-compatibility-2017-8/ ‬

brambos

Which includes at least 2000 South Park-themed soundboards, 3000 failed Candy Birds clones and approximately 85000 ‘my first app’ type concoctions that were only downloaded by the dev and his mom.

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@brambos said:
Which includes at least 2000 South Park-themed soundboards, 3000 failed Candy Birds clones and approximately 85000 ‘my first app’ type concoctions that were only downloaded by the dev and his mom.

Of couse this includes a lot of crappy And useless apps.
This article is in french :
‪Le passage à iOS 11, arrêt de mort de nombreux jeux vidéo http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/09/22/le-passage-a-ios-11-arret-de-mort-de-nombreux-jeux-video_5189496_4408996.html‬

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@brambos said:
Which includes at least 2000 South Park-themed soundboards, 3000 failed Candy Birds clones and approximately 85000 ‘my first app’ type concoctions that were only downloaded by the dev and his mom.

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Excellent.

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greengrocer

@brambos said:
Which includes at least 2000 South Park-themed soundboards, 3000 failed Candy Birds clones and approximately 85000 ‘my first app’ type concoctions that were only downloaded by the dev and his mom.

That still leaves 90.000 apps that have some value
I understand Apple's push forward, but still think that they just should keep them available for the persons that bought them. I remember Steve saying that once you bought an app it is yours for the rest of your life.

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Ok i got it ,but irony apart ,i don't Think Spacelab, synthx, WEJAAM, strange agency apps, synthronica , Beatsurfing, Morphwiz, Caelestis , Tachyon , samplelab, Nordbeat 2 And more deserve to disappear completely (especially if they were paid) ...

cian

You still have access to them if you have an IOS device that runs IOS 10, or older. It's just that they won't run on IOS 11. Apple made the decision to drop 32 bit support (after giving developers plenty of warning) because it has a significant impact on storage space and, a minor impact on performance.

teleb

Well, the new iPad Pros are so fast. Someone could write an iOS 10 emulator to run on them.
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ozmot

Playing worlds smallest violin app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/violin-magical-bow/id1084281087?mt=8

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@greengrocer said:
I remember Steve saying that once you bought an app it is yours for the rest of your life.

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Or was it just the rest of his life.

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@Max23 said:

@grego68 said:
Ok i got it ,but irony appart ,i don't Think Spacelab, synthx, WEJAAM, strange agency apps, synthronica , Beatsurfing, Morphwiz, Caelestis , Tachyon , samplelab, Nordbeat 2 And more deserve to disappear completely (especially if they were paid) ...

See, the devs thought ah, there is better stuff around now
Hm, shame about strange agency, didn’t do anything for years, that sure was creative stuff.
but let’s look at how old this stuff is, you can’t expect software to run forever on whatever the flavor of the day of os is ...
Synthronica was nice worked for years without any updates ...
It’s software it has its lifecycle and then dies if you don’t freeze the system...

Yes I know this is the end of a technologic cycle (and maybe economic with the monthly subscription), maybe i am resisting too much to progress and i have a diogenes syndrom, a kind of nostalgia. Thanks to the devs for all those goods apps anyway.

greengrocer

@grego68 said:

@Max23 said:

@grego68 said:
Ok i got it ,but irony appart ,i don't Think Spacelab, synthx, WEJAAM, strange agency apps, synthronica , Beatsurfing, Morphwiz, Caelestis , Tachyon , samplelab, Nordbeat 2 And more deserve to disappear completely (especially if they were paid) ...

See, the devs thought ah, there is better stuff around now
Hm, shame about strange agency, didn’t do anything for years, that sure was creative stuff.
but let’s look at how old this stuff is, you can’t expect software to run forever on whatever the flavor of the day of os is ...
Synthronica was nice worked for years without any updates ...
It’s software it has its lifecycle and then dies if you don’t freeze the system...

Yes I know this is the end of a technologic cycle (and maybe economic with the monthly subscription), maybe i am resisting too much to progress and i have a diogenes syndrom, a kind of nostalgia. Thanks to the devs for all those goods apps anyway.

You can always can question progress for progress sake. In most case it's just economically driven. Who needs 8K resolution on a cellphone... But if we talk music. We have better distortion pedals, but Big Muff(from the 70s) is still widely popular. Some apps can always be great and popular if the could withstand update cycles.