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A week after the launch of the iPhone 5 and at least 30% of my apps have been updated. I don't think that this is bad at all. Give it a month, and most apps will get updated. At least the ones we care about. Older apps will probably never get updated.
Some of your apps will NEVER be updated. It will take some time for the ones that will be.
I find it annoying that Whatsapp haven't updated yet, surley it can't be that hard and they have been top of the charts for god knows how long before Bad Piggies came along!
Exactly why I switched back to Android. This just confirms that Apple will be stuck at this screen size/resolution for years or until they completely change the way apps are handled. I upgrade my phone every year so OS fragmentation does matter as much. 1920x1080p will be the norm next year and all apps will fill the screen just fine.
A select few companies are given early access. Also it comes down to how you wrote your apps. Certain styles are easier to adapt than others.
125 apps isn't that much. In fact, Apple claims that the average iPhone user has over 100 apps installed.
I have 140 on my phone now, and they fit into two homescreens and I'm not even using the 5th row on either homescreen. Folders are great for organization. Now, there are about 30 that I use very regularly, and the rest are more sporadic use, but I do use them. Before I jailbroke my 4S, I had about 230 apps installed, but after jailbreaking, and then after getting the 5, I didn't install many apps that I don't use. The 140 on my phone now generally see use, except for a handful of games that I only play every once in a while, but that I want to have on my phone since I can't install it away from a wi-fi network if I do decide to play it.
BTW, of the 140 apps on my phone, 52 of them are optimized for the iPhone 5, including all the ones that I really care about, with the exception of Tapatalk. Because of that, Tapatalk is annoying me, but I'll deal.
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It depends on how the app is coded, for some developers it may be a case of changing a few lines of code and it's done, for others it may require an entire rewrite.
I'm not sure why someone would post something like this. Talking about smacking someone just cause they asked a question. Sorry we can't all appreciate the fact that you're a programmer. SHeesh
Standard procedure for any negativity towards an Apple product is deflect, deflect, deflect. People are so quick to make excuses or blame the user but for those out there who want to just view this as a purely selfish consumer then Yes this sucks because when you do a "Sort by Date" in your itunes App list then more than half of them haven't been updated in over a year or don't even have retina support.
It's not the downfall of Apple or anything but it is an annoyance that Apple users felt was exclusive to those "other brands".
Is this a joke? Would it be better on your 4s?
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I think people need to simmer down a little. It takes time to get these things done. I'm impressed with how quickly my apps are being updated!
Give me a break.
What's your job? Does anyone ever say to you "why does it take that long? Why can't it take half that time? You must not be good at this."
That's annoying no matter what your job is.
Short answer, no, developers have not had over a month. Most of them, with the exception of some big players like Facebook, Twitter, etc, did not have the specifics on the bigger phone resolution and how to enable it, until after the iPhone 5 was officially announced. Was that like 3 weeks ago, maybe?
Plus, the queue for app approvals is at least 1 week. And not every app is easily "stretchable", especially those with custom graphics.
Yeah, I wish more apps were iPhone 5 optimized, but as a developer myself, I'm finding it not a business-critical thing. It's not like there is a good way for app purchasers to know whether an app is iPhone 3.5" or iPhone 4" optimized before purchasing the app anyways. So, why would they want to spend time doing this, unless they had some free time? Just some thoughts from the other side of the fence.
Is it just me or were the devs actually quicker to update their apps to the new resolution when iPhone 4 was released compared to now?
No, it's not just you. When iPhone 4 was released, people were genuinely excited about the @2x retina graphics, and all developers had to do was pixel-double their graphics. Now, with iPhone 5, developers actually have to re-do their UI layouts altogether. Not as easy.
Really? Most apps I've seen for android are shocking. Like they were designed by a 5 year old, using a head wand.
The last sentence in your quote was never said, but it seems like the developer that posted automatically assumed that it was implied. No need to get all defensive.
At my job, or any job, if I'm asked "Why does it take that long?", then I will give the person a straight answer. There is no reason to be offended by a simple question that you ought to be used to answering.