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iPhone Apps optimized for XS Max [MERGED]

can someone clear something up for me, instagram changed to the new xcode and dropped ios 9 support to get max working again, why cant facebook who are incharge of instagram do the same, all cos ppl use ios 9 and it crashs with xcode 10.1 who even cares old phones can go from ios 9 to 10 and it wont crash it, they should care about the new phones not supporting them cos of 6 year old phones is stupid, they done it for insta but not facebook, i think they just cant be bothered
 
dan9700 said:
can someone clear something up for me, instagram changed to the new xcode and dropped ios 9 support to get max working again, why cant facebook who are incharge of instagram do the same, all cos ppl use ios 9 and it crashs with xcode 10.1 who even cares old phones can go from ios 9 to 10 and it wont crash it, they should care about the new phones not supporting them cos of 6 year old phones is stupid, they done it for insta but not facebook, i think they just cant be bothered
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There could be Several reasons for this -

1. Just because a certain company buys another company, doesn’t necessarily mean everything changes in the company that was bought out. They could very well be operating as individual entities.

2. Supporting an older version of os type of decisions are generally based on user base and Facebook itself and instagram don’t share similar users.

3. The projects are very different and works in completely different delivery paths. Different teams developing things and they hardly ever are in sync for things like these. Every team have their own roadmaps to stick to.

4. Features are always developed based on business priorities. The app looking a bit zoomed in may not be the highest priority for a company when it might be crashing on other devices / OS combination.

There are loads of other reasons, I can go on, but you get the drift. It’s not laziness.
 
akash.nu said:
There could be Several reasons for this -

1. Just because a certain company buys another company, doesn’t necessarily mean everything changes in the company that was bought out. They could very well be operating as individual entities.

2. Supporting an older version of os type of decisions are generally based on user base and Facebook itself and instagram don’t share similar users.

3. The projects are very different and works in completely different delivery paths. Different teams developing things and they hardly ever are in sync for things like these. Every team have their own roadmaps to stick to.

4. Features are always developed based on business priorities. The app looking a bit zoomed in may not be the highest priority for a company when it might be crashing on other devices / OS combination.

There are loads of other reasons, I can go on, but you get the drift. It’s not laziness.
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But in March they have to apple said so why not just do it
 
dan9700 said:
But in March they have to apple said so why not just do it
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Just business priorities. There might be external library dependencies that are not updated which means the project can’t be built etc. There can be some real can of worms when we are talking about as complex of a project as Facebook.
 
akash.nu said:
Just business priorities. There might be external library dependencies that are not updated which means the project can’t be built etc. There can be some real can of worms when we are talking about as complex of a project as Facebook.
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I don't see how every other app has been on all other social medias have updated even little apps have, to me its more like they don't want to
 
dan9700 said:
I don't see how every other app has been on all other social medias have updated even little apps have, to me its more like they don't want to
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It’s easy to update small apps. Less dependencies but then you can’t really compare all apps in the same way. Complexity and infrastructures play a huge role. I’m sure they’ll fix it soon, it’s just not as simple as it looks.
 
Is anyone still experiencing the Instagram App is Scaled? The stories are not in full screen.

Current version 81.0.
 
So the support for Max resolution and IPP 11” was not hard and fast rule? And no enforcement? Just a “please” and line in sand. Also, using the latest correct compilers to create app code?
 
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