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Re:Fire your bad customers by scarface74 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @04:50PM (#24102787)
It would be fine to move on but in the case of Angry Birds. Wouldn’t the company get a bad reputation if they didn’t keep the game compatible between the 3-1/2 inch iPhone up to 5 and the iPhone 5? When a new version of iOS caused it to crash?

But more importantly, if you bought MS Office for a one time fee of $100 and the next month, Apple introduced a new form factor or new features and either MS didn’t support it all or forced you to pay the full retail price, would you be upset?

People buy apps and expect them to continue working when they upgrade their phone. What are you left with besides ads and subscriptions without upgrade pricing?

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Re:Fire your bad customers by cortesoft on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:38PM (#24104257)
I feel like the solution there is for Apple to stop releasing breaking changes that make old apps stop working.
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Re:Fire your bad customers by scarface74 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:12PM (#24104485)
The “breaking changes” were creating a phone with a larger screen (iOS 5). Apps still worked but they looked horrible.

On the other hand for productivity apps, I would expect them to support split screen on the iPad when it was introduced and the File picker (it did).

Should Apple also have kept the Silicon needed to support 32 bit apps forever?

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