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Smeedge
Smeedge

Reputation: 190

Is it worth it to continue supporting iOS 4.x when iOS 6 is released?

I am working on a major feature update for my application and would love to include features such as iCloud, Core Data, ARC and storyboards among other things. The issue is that I don't have data on how many users are still running 4.x. I realize that the ideal solution would be to support both at once and just select the available features based on what version the particular device was on, but my upgrades would be so substantial that this would be very difficult. Does anyone else have reliable data on the percentage of users on older versions? And also would it be advisable to release an iOS 5+ version of my app separately as an "App 2.0?"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 430

Answers (4)

Animesh
Animesh

Reputation: 1010

Changes for ios 6 and Xcode 4.5.x

  1. Xcode 4.5.x (and later) does not support generating armv6 binaries.
  2. Now includes iPhone 5/armv7s support.
  3. The minimum supported deployment target with Xcode 4.5.x or later is iOS 4.3.
  4. The minimum support for iPhone is iPhone 3GS or later as earlier versions use armv6.

Upvotes: 0

cloosen
cloosen

Reputation: 993

... my company`s app still suport ios 3.x ,although only 2% on ios 3.x and below... but we can do the vast majority of ios4.0+ effect with 3.x and below API.

Upvotes: 4

Gambit
Gambit

Reputation: 2525

Here's an article for reference.

80% on iOS5

With the OTA updates, Apple devices are normally upgraded very quickly. The decision to create an iOS5 only app early this year was not too hard to make and more so now.

Upvotes: 3

phillm
phillm

Reputation: 166

I believe iOS users are the fastest ones to upgrade when there's a new update. Also I don't know if it is accepted to have 2 different apps for different versions of iOS. What you could do is having the app check what version of iOS the app is running and exclude the features that are unsupported for lower versions.

Can't find any really reliable sources but you could check out some update stats around.

Link

Upvotes: 2

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