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Any value in older devices

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shoota

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I have a nice iPhone 5C on 7.1 and as a phone on the open market it's not worth more than $40-50. But is there any value for developers since it's still on 7.1?
 
shoota said:
I have a nice iPhone 5C on 7.1 and as a phone on the open market it's not worth more than $40-50. But is there any value for developers since it's still on 7.1?
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No. Developers are trying to develop on the latest OS. Yes they try to test on all the hardware, but not as important (as they can do things like skip generations and assume the middle ones will operate reasonably well).
 
Newer versions of Xcode push you towards supporting iOS 10 and 11. No one cares about iOS 7.x development anymore.
 
Ocellaris said:
Newer versions of Xcode push you towards supporting iOS 10 and 11. No one cares about iOS 7.x development anymore.
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That's honestly true of Xcode in general since the beginning, which is why you hardly find Mac apps that still run on 10.4 Tiger or even 10.5 Leopard despite not being the sort of apps that would really leverage the APIs in newer OS X/macOS versions. Heck, even a decade ago, my 10.2 Jaguar CDs were as good as coasters for all the software they had to run; Mac OS 9 was actually a far better choice, practically speaking, because it actually had software to run.

Apple, unlike a lot of the tech industry, does not give much regard for backwards compatibility. They want people running the latest OS, and to buy new hardware to run that latest OS if they can get away with it. There's advantages for sure, like forcing developers to move on from deprecated APIs and such, but it's a total pain if they decide to stop supporting your hardware and all the developers quickly follow suit. It takes holdouts like Cameron Kaiser (developer of Classilla and TenFourFox) to even bother with maintaining software that still runs on older hardware with older OSes so they can still function in the modern world with a changing, increasingly bloated Web and newer formats popping up.

And as for the original poster, well, if you thought the 5C being stuck on 7.1 was bad, my little bro has a fourth-gen iPod touch that's forever stuck on iOS 6.something because it doesn't have enough RAM to run anything newer. The UI is so painfully dated that it throws me for a loop, especially seeing how iOS 7 and later really modernized things.

Also, the 5S he had before that was already feeling horribly dated even when he first got it (this was like two or three years after the 5S released, so around 6S or 7 era), and that's still supported to my knowledge. He uses an SE now, and those are cheap enough, and yet powerful enough under the hood, that I would advise getting a 64 GB/128 GB model if you want to stick to the iPhone side of things. Heck, even I'd be a smidge tempted by the SE if I wanted a compact phone with a flagship-caliber SoC and NVMe storage (that only isn't flagship anymore because the A9 is two years old).
 
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