I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later

Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by proidgeree1 on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:02PM (#22165460)

App creators are given an API and ways not to break support for your device; it’s on them to do device testing of all their app’s corner cases. This doesnt seem unreasonable to me. What else should apple do?

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by g051051 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:58PM (#22174536)

Apple can share the blame, because they didn't test the app like they should have to verify that the app was in fact compatible with the hardware the dev claimed. Or maybe the dev did everything right, but Xcode had a bug.

But mainly, just let me download whatever previous version I want.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by craftinator on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:10AM (#22177928)

Maybe Apple doesn't have a spare iPad just lying around; they're hoping that the devs have bought all their extras, to test software updates in different platforms...

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by cnst on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:34PM (#22173759)

Why not let the user download any old version? Let the users mark newer versions as broken for their hardware, so that the last-known-working-version is not reset?

I mean, they have a platform, but the feedback loop seems kind of broken.

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