MissNomer

JinTech said:

shareef777 said:

JinTech said:

22july2013 said:

When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

Likely on April 25th.

Unlikely. That date is for NEW app submissions. Generally speaking the only time an app is booted from the store is if it A.) violates Apple's rules or B.) becomes a competitor to a feature Apple is releasing. Other then that, Apple couldn't care less how old and outdated an app is. Every version sold is $$$ for them, screw the end user experience.

According to the article, it says "Apple will soon require that all apps developed for its platforms be built with Xcode 13, the latest version of the company's development kit." which implies this will apply to old apps as well.

 “ Starting April 25, 2022, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 13, which includes the SDKs for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8.”

Implies the action of new submissions.

Besides, Apple do this all the time - this is not a new policy - it’s simply a clarification on which version is now required.

With the first patent issued 2017 I suspect this’ll go nowhere fast and fail at the “Prior art” hurdle. This sort of application has been around along time - much earlier than 2017.

Hell, I used Picasa for just exactly this purpose - and not only did that start life in the early 2000s, Google had killed it by 2016: Such facts suspiciously absent in the patent filings.

Not only that but Software Patents are hard to enforce: for these to be enforceable they be it need to check the “abstract idea” and/or include “transformative” claims.

These patents do neither - in fact their very essence is based upon the existing EXIF data tags that have been around for honks now.

My guess is this company is getting short on funds and are looking for a cash injection. This action will hopefully have the inverse effect and force these scummy idiots into bankruptcy.

Skeptical said:

Pay cuts for doing the same if not similar work from home. Really Facebook? Another reason to hate them. 

There's a reason why tech folk on the left coast can get over $200k salaries: cost of living. And even then the number of them living in microscopic housing - or even their cars - is scary.

Folk complaining about the Net 60 don't seem to understand the real world: I'm averaging Net 75 with one of my customers, Net 80 with another.

WarrenBuffduckh said:

One would assume that a mutli-billion dollar spending, overequipped test lab would extensively test its OS with the most cpu/memory intensive apps and environments before shipping it as a Pro-class product. 
Apple currently ships beta quality software -  despite or thanks to its public alpha program.



Let us know when you've actually been involved in writing an operating system used by hundreds of thousands of apps by millions of people around the world across a huge swath of hardware configurations.

Until then your criticsm is pointless.