Paul wrote:I finally give up trying. My iPhone 5 is not compatible. My wife's iPad isn't compatible and yesterday I tried a IPad mini that might be able to run it but although iOS 10.0.2 was installed your emulator complained that it needed iOS 10 to run on it.
Genuinely sorry to hear about the app woes. To clarify iOS 10 and Apple A7 processor or above (which explains the iPhone 5 not being supported) are required. So for example the original iPad mini would not be supported but an iPad mini 2 and above should be supported so long as iOS 10.0 and above is installed. If you have any version of iOS 10 installed then you must have at least an iPad mini 2 since the original iPad mini does not support iOS 10.
Note: it's not the app complaining - it would be an iOS system message. Apple should not permit the app as a download via the app store app unless your device supports configuration supports it. Paul, some questions:
1) To what iPad mini model do you have access?
2) How did you try to download the app? The app store app on your iOS device or via a desktop download using iTunes on a Mac/PC? If it was the former does the app show when you do a text search or did you click a web link to get to it?
3) Could you be a star and post on this thread a screenshot of the incompatibility message?
4) If you update from 10.0.2 to 10.2 (latest public release at time of writing) any joy?
Paul wrote:How picky can an app be?
Very going by your experience. Odd. If your iPad mini device can run iOS 10 then it should run.
Paul wrote:Is it so difficult to supply compatibility to few systems?
No, it's not difficult to provide support to more earlier systems. But it is difficult to tell Apple which systems you don't want to support, e.g. earlier A5 processors. I don't want this app on older mobile devices and running hot. So, Paul you suffer because Apple does not have more developer options such as "don't offer to users with X device". Instead I have to use one of the few blanket device support options available, support only 64bit devices (A7+), to ensure totally unsuited devices will be shown as incompatible when the install/get button is pressed. Total 100% overkill. Feel free to rant, but please not in my direction.
I chose iOS 10 and because from my real world work I'm sick of bending over to support older devices for a user base who are quick to complain when their configuration is not supported and make me spend unthanked hours on workarounds only to hear they have subsequently bought the latest device shortly after. I have nothing to prove and the app code is cleaner without concerning myself with backwards compatibility for an ever diminishing older OS & device user base.
Reading the above does make me sound miserable. Sorry. I do care.
Happy Christmas!
Kevin