No one is pushing anyone anywhere. You can use your phone with whatever features it has and function as long as you will. It is up to you when you want to change. Neither Netflix nor Apples newest devices are a necessity for life on planet earth.
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Netflix App to End Support for iOS 16, Require iPhone XS or Later to Work
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Netflix always has be the weird one. Only one that won’t just let me airplay to a tv without signing in on the actual tv.
you can also find premade sand at the beach
in earnest, the point of the analogy, since it wasn't clear, is that the march of progress in technology is inevitable and it's only a matter of time until your devices become obsolete
Depends doesn't it, on the user base.
How many people use Netflix exclusively on their mobile device vs TV, where they don't mind loosing mobile access to Netflix.
How many Netflix users have these older devices?
How much does it cost to support older devices vs possible revenue?
I think some people think that if they aren’t using the latest version of the app then the service won’t work. Netflix will continue to work, even if you are using an old version of their app. You just won’t get any new features. Also it’s up to the app developer for how long the older versions of the app are supported or made available on the App Store.
We only just dropped iOS 12 at my job. We jumped straight to 15 too as there’s around 0.1% of users on 13 and 14.
I presume this is why app developers prefer iOS; Apple does a much better job of minimising the number of OS versions that need to be supported/targeted.
It might be that you are actually “casting” to the TV rather than using AirPlay. Not casting in the Google Chromecast sense, but it seems some TVs with built-in apps (especially YouTube and Netflix), will leverage the built-in apps to effectively cast content from your phone to the TV. Except, in the case of Netflix, the same account needs to be signed in on the TV.
As of February 2024, approx. 66% of devices worldwide run iOS 17 while 34% run iOS 16 and lower according to
Apple devices iOS version share worldwide 2016-2025| Statista
The new mobile operating system iOS 18 was installed on 68 percent of the Apple devices that accessed the Apple App Store in March 2025, while the older iOS 16 was running on 14 percent of mobile devices and earlier releases on the remaining nine percent. Apple’s smartphone market share Apple...
www.statista.com
As of August 2024, iOS 17 is a bit higher at around 70% which leaves about 30% running iOS 16 and under
iOS Version Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of ios versions worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.
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X formally Twitter has an app as well as a website.
Soon, having a Netflix account will be a class discussion by how things are going. Now you not only need to afford the monthly subscription, but also have a fairly recent device.
It's weird to me how some don't seem to see Twitter as both a website and an app.
There were referencing it being discontinued for x86, which means on macOS.
I doubt many people are using the macOS app, or even know about it.
The four latest versions of Android all have double-digit percentage user numbers according to our data on our customers. - While on iOS, iOS 17 constitutes high-70s% and 16 is the only older release to be close to double digits - It does reach a smidge over 10%. But 16 is ~6% and older than that it drops radically, with 14 and earlier being <1% (iPads have higher numbers of users on older versions than phones)
I was more referencing that some developers have dropped support for Apps on Intel Macs already even if it is only Twitter. How long before other drop support.
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It's fun to stretch the life of old desktop and laptop computer hardware by installing Linux on them, and working around these arbitrary restrictions. It would be nice to have similar options for phone and tablet hardware. We bought it, we should be able to use it.
What a horrendous way to run your business and "support" your customers
Get wrecked Netflix
Garbage offering these days anyway
Get wrecked Netflix
Garbage offering these days anyway
Hope you're crucifying Apple for not allowing iOS 17 and 18 on older iPhones, too. I mean, what a way to run a business and "support" your customers, right?