Hi Folks,
Just a little moan. I have iPhone 6 which will support up to IOS12 operating system.
Starbucks have upgraded their app which needs IOS13. That's ok but it won't let me continue to use the old one (without the 'new' features, whatever they are). I contacted Starbucks who suggested apologetically that I get a Starbucks card, remember them, and Starbucks will transfer anything I have onto the new card. Well it's a workaround and one less app on my phone.
Then Capital One announce the same type of thing. The app has been upgraded and it need IOS13. Also won't let me use the old app. Another app to come off my phone.
I accept technology moves on but IOS12 isn't exactly decrepit. Everything else on my phone is fine.
Does anyone with a non-iphone have the problem of apps outgrowing their Operating System?
Ray.
Got a credit card? use our Credit Card & Finance Calculators
Thanks to Rhyd6,eyeball08,Wondergirly,bofh,johnstevens77, for Donating to support the site
Upgrade Apps annoyance
Upgrade Apps annoyance
Last edited by chas49 on November 20th, 2021, 6:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: typo in subject corrected
Reason: typo in subject corrected
-
- Lemon Slice
- Posts: 450
- Joined: April 13th, 2017, 11:37 am
- Has thanked: 235 times
- Been thanked: 154 times
Re: Upgrade Apps annoyance
I have the issue with IOS and Android devices.
IOS 12 is what, 2018 era and the iPhone 6 is 2014 so 7 years old? It's not ideal, but if you want to have a smartphone then OS/App obsolescence is the nature of the beast.
IOS 12 is what, 2018 era and the iPhone 6 is 2014 so 7 years old? It's not ideal, but if you want to have a smartphone then OS/App obsolescence is the nature of the beast.
-
- Lemon Quarter
- Posts: 2574
- Joined: November 5th, 2016, 2:22 am
- Has thanked: 552 times
- Been thanked: 1212 times
Re: Upgrade Apps annoyance
I have an android phone. My old one (with android 6.1) became increasingly obsolete for various apps.
The financial ones, I could understand, as there were potential security issues with the older OS, but games and loyalty cards?
It seems to have become a type of baked-in obsolescence driven by the app developers. As somebody who owns their own phone, and doesn't feel the need to upgrade it every year or so, it peeves me no end that apps are made to stop working, rather than just left alone for those of us on older platforms. I had an iPhone 3G that was slowly "bricked" by apps becoming obsolete. Switching to android slowed the effect, but it's still there.
VRD
The financial ones, I could understand, as there were potential security issues with the older OS, but games and loyalty cards?
It seems to have become a type of baked-in obsolescence driven by the app developers. As somebody who owns their own phone, and doesn't feel the need to upgrade it every year or so, it peeves me no end that apps are made to stop working, rather than just left alone for those of us on older platforms. I had an iPhone 3G that was slowly "bricked" by apps becoming obsolete. Switching to android slowed the effect, but it's still there.
VRD
-
- The full Lemon
- Posts: 10809
- Joined: November 4th, 2016, 8:17 pm
- Has thanked: 1471 times
- Been thanked: 3002 times
Re: Upgrade Apps annoyance
You have stumbled into a reason to avoid apps (well, at least those that aren't open source). They leave you hostage to someone's whim.
Same applies to proprietary software elsewhere. Like when skype ceased to work on my (technophobic) dad's macbook, and both my brother and I looked at it and concluded this was not end-user fixable.
Same applies to proprietary software elsewhere. Like when skype ceased to work on my (technophobic) dad's macbook, and both my brother and I looked at it and concluded this was not end-user fixable.
-
- Lemon Half
- Posts: 6050
- Joined: May 30th, 2021, 6:01 pm
- Has thanked: 1843 times
- Been thanked: 2067 times
Re: Upgrade Apps annoyance
Decent programmers can make things compatible
there is just too much sloppinesses around these days
I have 2 apps on my Android ver 8 that stopped working a month or so ago and a few updates later the glitches were fixed and they work now
there is just too much sloppinesses around these days
I have 2 apps on my Android ver 8 that stopped working a month or so ago and a few updates later the glitches were fixed and they work now
-
- The full Lemon
- Posts: 10809
- Joined: November 4th, 2016, 8:17 pm
- Has thanked: 1471 times
- Been thanked: 3002 times
Re: Upgrade Apps annoyance
pje16 wrote:Decent programmers can make things compatible
Depends on the environment they're working in.
Pressure from management to meet arbitrary deadlines and "get a product out" makes for a race for the bottom. Corners get cut, and a prime candidate is the forward planning needed to make something maintainable.
Even when there isn't excessive pressure, closed source hides a multitude of sins. Not least the unhealthy relationship between programmers and management particularly prevalent in the UK industry (though the American Dilbert hints at it too), but that's a whole nother rant.
-
- Lemon Quarter
- Posts: 3499
- Joined: November 27th, 2016, 8:45 am
- Has thanked: 131 times
- Been thanked: 1277 times
Re: Upgrade Apps annoyance
pje16 wrote:Decent programmers can make things compatible
They can, but then they have to give up the features in the newer OS versions or they have to maintain multiple versions for each OS version.
Given that app developers can see which OS people are using then they could take a business decision about whether it is worth spending the time, effort, and money, supporting an app for a long out of date OS that a tiny proportion of their customers use.
Return to “Technology - Computers, TV, Phones etc.”
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 32 guests