Backwards compatibility is a double-edged sword. It's cool that you can run an apk from 10 years ago but there should be a point where you say that's enough and drop support from them. Looking at Windows.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I learned the other day that thats the reason you cannot make a folder named CON on windows. Dates back to pre DOS era.
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I used an apple phone for the first time at work, they gave us apple phones.
I was blown away when I realized you can't just dump any old file on it, because I'm used to plugging in my android phone and throwing on some files like it's any other removable storage. Not so with apple phones, incredibly limited.
See, I used to flash firmware for copy machines from my phone. Like if I went out to a site and didn't prepare firmware before going I could just download it on my phone and flash from that.
The apple phone couldn't do a bunch of stuff that I always thought was standard smartphone things. Also couldn't display cell and wifi reception in decibels, and I used to do informal site surveys with my phone. Nope, apple can't do that either, "bars" aren't a good metric to wrote down.
That thing was about damn useless except to be used as a phone and an mp3 player.
Yeah Android CAN run the app if you have the APK. But also the play store won't let you if the dev hasn't updated the app in a couple of years. Older games are especially bad.
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Android and iOS are both abysmal.
Damn right!
- Sent from Jerboa on Blackberry
Just installed the original flappy bird last week on my A54 and it's working great.
The original flappy bird doesn't exist in the playstores anymore since 2014. How could you install it?
Probably found the apk somewhere online.
Ohh i remember. Didnt the dev decide that he wasnt gonna support their users becoming addicted or sth?
Iirc the 2nd place flappy bird world champion killed the 1st place flappy bird world champion because he was mad at him for being better.
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This just isn't true; Android absolutely has version limits.
The Google play store has version limits. A sideloaded app will almost always work
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most of the time? yes.
some apps do actually break with newer android versions though. It's gotten a little better and happened less often after the big step to Android 4 (okay… that is itself more than 10 years ago)
but it can and does still happen sometimes
but, muh securitah!
I use both. IOS on my iPad and Android on my Phone