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
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.
