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iPhone It’s been weeks, why aren’t any apps updated for the XS Max?

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bixizero

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This happens every phone generation. Apple provides no incentive for developers to update their app. Now 95% of apps status bar is all jacked up due to the X up-ressing.

It shouldn’t take a year to update the resolution of an app but since apple doesn’t give a crap it always does.

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bixizero said:
This happens every phone generation. Apple provides no incentive for developers to update their app. Now 95% of apps status bar is all jacked up due to the X up-ressing.

It shouldn’t take a year to update the resolution of an app but since apple doesn’t give a crap it always does.

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It's only been 3 weeks. In 3 months, then we can have threads like this. The "incentive" provided is a massive amount of phones flooding the market. The faster you update your app, the more likely you'll be an early run away app for it. It's not Apples job to provide incentive for a business to do their job. Sheesh...
 
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It's only been 3 weeks. In 3 months, then we can have threads like this. The "incentive" provided is a massive amount of phones flooding the market. The faster you update your app, the more likely you'll be an early run away app for it. It's not Apples job to provide incentive for a business to do their job. Sheesh...
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Updating the resolution literally takes 1 week tops. Apple should incentivize this by doing things like reducing un-updated apps search visibility at first, then as weeks go on, slowly increasing the amount of profit they take from devs.

What really makes no sense is that over half of these unupdated apps have several android resolutions that are updated frequently. Probably because Google does a better job at ‘incentivizing’ devs by docking profit made from IAPs and reducing SEO.

Some of Apples OWN APPS aren’t even updated for the X yet after a year. Really shows how much they give a **** about third party devs not doing it.
 

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Just as it basically gets discussed practically every year with the same things just being rehashed and the same dead horse getting a beating.
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Know why? Because it’s a PROBLEM that apple IGNORES every year. Steve predicted Apple wouldn’t be able to handle new resolutions, seems he was right.
 
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Know why? Because it’s a PROBLEM that apple IGNORES every year. Steve predicted Apple wouldn’t be able to handle new resolutions, seems he was right.
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It's just not utopia, which really doesn't exist in the world. It's just reality.
 
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New/updated apps have to support the XS Max from March.

Also to update for Max if you already support X seems to just be a compile with the iOS 12 SDK.

Developers aren’t always the fastest it’s taken Barclaycard 3 months of beta and over 2 weeks since release to fix an iOS 12 crash bug.
 
you need more apps :)

search the total what's new version history

Several at least say iPhone XS max support

"incentive for developers" I do miss the old days when we got free or 1/2 price hardware.
 
Daremo said:
It's only been 3 weeks. In 3 months, then we can have threads like this. The "incentive" provided is a massive amount of phones flooding the market. The faster you update your app, the more likely you'll be an early run away app for it. It's not Apples job to provide incentive for a business to do their job. Sheesh...
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Some apps never updated to iPhone X
 
Complain to the app developers not Apple. There are a lot of developers who write and application and they just sit back and collect money they never touch them again. Look at all the apps that were dropped because they were still 32 bit.
 
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Complain to the app developers not Apple. There are a lot of developers who write and application and they just sit back and collect money they never touch them again. Look at all the apps that were dropped because they were still 32 bit.
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Apple should drop more devs that don’t go their job. Or take a larger percentage of IAPs for unuodated apps.
 
bixizero said:
This happens every phone generation. Apple provides no incentive for developers to update their app. Now 95% of apps status bar is all jacked up due to the X up-ressing.

It shouldn’t take a year to update the resolution of an app but since apple doesn’t give a crap it always does.

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Yes blame Apple, cause the sheep beside you & too much of the world does.

How about blame the app developers.
 
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False

Updating the resolution literally takes 1 week tops. Apple should incentivize this by doing things like reducing un-updated apps search visibility at first, then as weeks go on, slowly increasing the amount of profit they take from devs.
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First, it's not "updating the resolution."

Second, it depends on the app. There is no magical switch that when flipped makes the app work on every device. It could actually be a pretty extensive project, and if it's an app that brings in little revenue there is no incentive to spend the time or money.

And finally if you want the answer, email the developer and ask.
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bixizero said:
Apple should drop more devs that don’t go their job. Or take a larger percentage of IAPs for unuodated apps.
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Because the apps aren't fully optimized for 1% of all iOS devices in use? Get over it. Your life will go on fine for the next few weeks until the apps for your $1,500 phone are updated.
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Broken Hope said:
New/updated apps have to support the XS Max from March.

Also to update for Max if you already support X seems to just be a compile with the iOS 12 SDK.

Developers aren’t always the fastest it’s taken Barclaycard 3 months of beta and over 2 weeks since release to fix an iOS 12 crash bug.
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Incorrect. Apps have to be built with the iOS 12 SDK. That is not the same thing as making changes to an app so that the UI is optimized for a particular phone (e.g., removing the black bars up top near the notch).
 
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Apple should drop more devs that don’t go their job. Or take a larger percentage of IAPs for unuodated apps.
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And how much of larger percentage of $0.00 would that be to scare a developer of an abandoned app? As others mentioned, go after the devs, find a replacement app, but not on Apple to overtly force a developer to update. Enough people bail on the app, that might be enough pressure for a dev. And probably in the next year, Apple will put it out there that all updates to apps will need to be notch compliant. And at that point, if still no updates, time to get over it as app will truly be in an abandoned status at that point.

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Latter-Day Saints?
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Gee! That'd be some dull TV.

Baseball. League Divisional Series. America League in the case of TBS.
 
NoBoMac said:
And how much of larger percentage of $0.00 would that be to scare a developer of an abandoned app? As others mentioned, go after the devs, find a replacement app, but not on Apple to overtly force a developer to update. Enough people bail on the app, that might be enough pressure for a dev. And probably in the next year, Apple will put it out there that all updates to apps will need to be notch compliant. And at that point, if still no updates, time to get over it as app will truly be in an abandoned status at that point.



Gee! That'd be some dull TV.

Baseball. League Divisional Series. America League in the case of TBS.
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You’re clueless if you think this is only happening on abandoned apps. 99% of apps aren’t updated yet. This **** isn’t hard.
 
bixizero said:
You’re clueless if you think this is only happening on abandoned apps. 99% of apps aren’t updated yet. This **** isn’t hard.
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Sounds like you should let the app developers know.
 
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This happens every phone generation. Apple provides no incentive for developers to update their app. Now 95% of apps status bar is all jacked up due to the X up-ressing.

It shouldn’t take a year to update the resolution of an app but since apple doesn’t give a crap it always does.

Discuss
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Developer time spent for a very small market.
 
bixizero said:
Apple should drop more devs that don’t go their job. Or take a larger percentage of IAPs for unuodated apps.
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you think ios platform profitable ?

1. Objective C and Xcode is the horrible language and ide.
2. If Apple kill all those application , it will be like windows mobile failure market.
3. Forcing 100 dollar just for app development even not publish is outrages..

** i always found people who think developer are easy to manipulate and can be bought time cheaply.. We're not and software development it not just paid electrical bills and buy some junk laptop.

Newbies developer some are so dump thinking they have to supply resources to newbies company also.
 
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