[HN Gopher] Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it ...
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       Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it
        
       Author : fortran77
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-04-30 21:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | basisword wrote:
       | Click bait headline. They removed apps that haven't been updated
       | in 3 years. This means the apps won't support the latest devices,
       | screen sizes, etc. why would Apple continue selling apps which
       | will work poorly on a customers phone?
        
         | goosedragons wrote:
         | Yet they keep apps that haven't been updated for even longer
         | periods of time that just get more downloads. Why do they keep
         | letting people download apps that work poorly on a customers
         | phone?
        
           | basisword wrote:
           | Start with the low download apps so that the more "important"
           | apps get the message and update. If an app is downloaded lots
           | it's a toss up between giving customers the best experience
           | and keeping an app they need available.
        
             | _aavaa_ wrote:
             | > it's a toss up between giving customers the best
             | experience and keeping an app they need available.
             | 
             | There is no toss up. Any move that removed "an app [people]
             | need" is completely opposed "to giving customers the best
             | experience".
        
               | saurik wrote:
               | Remember that people like basisword believe they know
               | better than normal people what is good for them, and so
               | in their mindset they seriously believe that it is
               | somehow doing right by users to protect them from their
               | beliefs about what they "need".
        
               | barrell wrote:
               | This comment seems uncalled for. it's a different sort of
               | experience and different people like different things.
               | 
               | I don't like it when I download an app, only to find that
               | it opens in a weird size because it hasn't been updated
               | in years. I'd rather not have that as an option to
               | download -\\_(tsu)_/-
        
               | withinboredom wrote:
               | This is starting to turn into tabs vs. spaces kind of
               | argument.
        
         | faeriechangling wrote:
         | Because some of these apps are artistic works, and making
         | artistic works effectively unusable arbitrarily is
         | unconscionable.
         | 
         | Because there are many niche audiences which can't afford
         | constant software updates and having an application that
         | doesn't perfectly support a new device is better for them than
         | not having a application at all.
         | 
         | I would not have a single solitary problem with what they're
         | doing if they allowed side loading, but if they don't allow
         | side loading, this shit isn't okay. I know there's a whack of
         | unmaintained apps out there which are meant to help people with
         | a disability, if somebody relies on such an app, fuck them I
         | guess, they should use a new app that supports the newest
         | screen sizes regardless of if that app exists or not.
        
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