Re:How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster
by joshspankit on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:21AM
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The jury is still out on "less driving" (though my intuition agrees with you).
Here are some things that they are doing to "softly drive" people to newer phones:
- Emoji
- iMessage features (like Memoji stickers)
- Non-resource-intensive privacy features (such as choosing individual photos for an app to access)
- Pushing app developers to newer SDKs (which makes them change code and put in more work to support older iOS versions even if they can after making use of a new API)
- Extra RAM usage for the iOS versions due to additional background tasks that cannot be disabled
There are more (as a long-time device user I regularly see examples), but I'm limiting myself to 15min on this reply.
Here are some things that they are doing to "softly drive" people to newer phones:
- Emoji
- iMessage features (like Memoji stickers)
- Non-resource-intensive privacy features (such as choosing individual photos for an app to access)
- Pushing app developers to newer SDKs (which makes them change code and put in more work to support older iOS versions even if they can after making use of a new API)
- Extra RAM usage for the iOS versions due to additional background tasks that cannot be disabled
There are more (as a long-time device user I regularly see examples), but I'm limiting myself to 15min on this reply.