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Apple Says That All New Apps Must Support the iPhone X Screen (9to5mac.com)
Today, Apple emailed developers to inform them that all new apps that are submitted to the App Store must support the iPhone X's Super Retina display, starting this April. What this means is that developers of new applications must ensure they accommodate the notch and go edge-to-edge on the 5.8-inch OLED screen. 9to5Mac reports: Apple has not set a deadline for when updates to existing apps must support iPhone X natively. From April, all new apps must also be built against the iOS 11 SDK. In recent years, Apple has enforced rules more aggressively when it comes to supporting the latest devices. Apple informed the news in an email today encouraging adoption of the latest iOS 11 features like Core ML, SiriKit and ARKit. Requiring compilation with the iOS 11 SDK does not necessarily mean the apps must support new features. It ensures that new app developers are using the latest Apple development tools, which helps prevent the App Store as a whole from going stale, and may encourage adoption of cutting edge features. The rules don't mean that much until Apple requires updates to also support iPhone X and the iOS 11 SDK, as updates represent the majority of the App Store. Most developers making new apps already target iPhone X as a top priority.
while u suck them
If you can't sell it, you can at least force developers to pretend that it's relevant.
Apple: Yeah we changed up the screen and we did a bunch of weird stuff without consulting you.
Developers: You're right, that is some weird stuff that you did there for no reason other than "look at me", but whatever, man.
Apple: And we want you to bend over backwards and change your app around to support the stuff that we implemented without asking or telling you.
Developer: Uh... wait, why did you do this in the first place? Is there a real compelling reason or...?
Apple: Because we had some artist say that he thinks it looks better this way. We might change our minds. But we might not.
Developer: Ugh. So I have to do a bunch of work for no real reason? What's your deal anyway?
Apple: No there's definitely a reason: because we have altered the deal. Now get to work, beeyotch.
Developer: (this deal is getting worse all the time...)
Hasn't Apple quit making the iPhone X because it didn't sell? And only now they're telling App Developers that they must support a discontinued device?
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YOU WILL use the notch, you will be a Notchphone fanboy.
Never go full retard.
Funny how Apple used to joke that Android had a fragmentation problem, but now every time Apple releases something new, developers need to do specific things in their apps in order to properly support it.
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Hi, actual IOS developer here?
What Apple is asking people to do is stuff they have been asking people to do since forever - to build using auto layout, or at least respecting margins the system asks for.
There are a few technical nuances there, but not many. They are just asking developers to build in a. way that respects system margins so that stuff will look OK across many devices.
In practice all the iPhone X is, is a larger bottom and top margin.
It's not a lot of work to adapt for this, unless you've been hard-coding a lot of stuff and in that case - Coding Karma has come to bite your dull metal ass.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I have a couple of niche apps (one is for telescope polar alignment and astrophotography tools, the other, "Xasteria", is for an astronomical weather forecast) and I am trying my best to keep them working with as old phones as possible and make new features available to them. So far I am managing to keep them working for 2012's iOS 6, since that is the minimum you can do with a version of the dev tools that is still accepted to the app store, and they only miss a little visual candy (and a faster-rendering webview which is not crucial for these apps) compared to running them a device with a newer iOS - as I do target iOS 10 devices with newer features. And, while my iOS 6 and iOS 7 users are not that many, they absolutely love it and I do get some messages about how excited they are to get new features on an "ancient" iPhone 3GS!
With the latest Xcode there is no way to support such old devices, so when I am forced to use it I will cut out these users who find a good use for their old devices (when you go in remote dark places perhaps with high humidity, having an old device instead of a new one is an advantage).
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
Actually iPhone X sales turned out to be Xceedingly good.
So what was that you were saying again? Oh that's right, just like most Apple Haters you are about three years out of date with reality and are just posting to make yourself look like an idiot.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Thinking of Marty Feldman's Igor in Young Frankenstein, I honestly hadn't put much thought into the notch. I've been using the Iphone 10 since December and find zero issues with the notch. I do wish it were bigger like my Iphone 7+ or my HP Elite X3, but hopefully they'll come out with a Plus size version soon. My only drawback doesn't have to do with the notch but the narrow screen. The device isn't much bigger than the Iphone 6 units at my work.
Seriously, I think more people are talking like the notch is an issue than those of us with the device. Whatever they say.
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that they will NOT be supporting the Ultra Retina display.
All those developers will have to buy one to test
You can use the iOS simulator just fine to test both layout and FaceID auth (if used by the app).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
and look at this, you can ssh a remote X-11 session of popular open source applications to or from your iPhone X, AIN'T THAT COOL!
ba dum Tish...
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
You just can't wait to prove what an idiot you are, can you? You just keep have to go back and make mistake after mistake that 10 seconds on Google would have corrected you on before you put on the clown mask once more.
"The iPhone X "surpassed our expectations and has been our top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November""
Said the SECOND LINK in my own Google search...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Maybe ; just maybe, people would not despise apple and their blind follows so much if you all where not such massive assholes.
Apple claim to be a high end product but they make that claim without the durability and reliability of other high end products on the market
Totally untrue, the iPad 2 I bought at launch is still being used daily, as is my mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro (and THAT took a header from about four feet not a concrete floor with just a small dent in the corner and no repair needed).
Electronics by their very nature are inherently going to suffer a bit compared to newer models after some time has passed. But Apple truly does do a better job than most companies at making products with good fit and finish, and supporting them for a long time - so if you are OK with using the slightly slower system, they can be used a LONG time.
Apple can jump to user replaceable batteries and screens to promote extended life
They are user replaceable, go to any Apple Store or if you are technically inclined by a kit and do it yourself.
The difference is the batteries Apple uses are WAY BETTER than replaceable batteries, I did not miss that at all moving away from flip phones because I had to replace the damn things every six months and lets be honest - NO ONE wants to carry a spare battery with them. But if you did feel so inclined the infinite variety of the external phone charger is vastly preferable to the fixed size and capacity of the replaceable battery. Apple would not go back to them because the world has moved on to the better idea, the sealed battery - going the other way is low end in every possible respect.
just another tax cheating corporation
They are repatriating a WHOLE BUNCH of money back to the U.S. so I guess that just makes you another behind the times Apple Hater, doomed to be wrong about Apple until the heat death of the sun.
I'll let you have the last response as I can only correct so much stupidity in one day.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Sometimes it's hard for people to not be cashiers in the face of such wilfully ignorant, or purposefully misleading non-information.
Cashiers? Wtf android auto correct...
Supposed to be assholes. Not unlike autocorrect, and "you must wait a little bit before correcting a stupid typo, because Slashdotis 15 years behind.
Preview always works.
"no reasonable person would believe us".
And you believed them.
If they're doing better than they expected, what about the news report they decreased production? If they set their expectations at 1, they blew right by that. Then again, the essential phone did just that too
"The iPhone X "surpassed our expectations and has been our top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November""
What does top-selling mean? Does it include returns? Everyone I know who has tried the iPhone X has hated it and opted to return it within the first month. Every single one. I can't remember the last time I saw someone with an iPhone X. And you'll recognize them: iPhone X users are the ones who keep on looking like they're trying to take a scowling selfie before they finally give up and angrily punch in a PIN, if the ugly camera blob and stupid notch weren't enough to give it away.
Also if you bothered reading your own links you'd see that iPhone sales are dropping. Revenue (so total sales) was higher, but units shipped was not. I doubt they'll be able to pull off that trick a second time: reviews of the HomePod are abysmal and reviews of the iPhone X all took a sharp nose dive as people had more time to discover how flawed a phone it is.
It's doing so badly, Apple has discontinued production of the phones. Slashdot covered that a month ago or so.
In sort: you and Apple are full of shit.
...You just can't wait to prove what an idiot you are, can you? ...
I read the article you cited. If that makes me an idiot...
A loyal and true believing Apple iSheep cult follower has to follow the example set Forth by the divine and All mighty Apple god Steve Jobs. Steve that once walked among mortals, Still demands your very soul and dignity for the honor of being abused by Apple and its holy priests, the uneducated indoctrinated brainwashed air-headed Apple Store geniuses!
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