... however, there is nothing else in this space that costs $10 a week and $2500 is a lot for a small school....
I can make a good guess with the information provided. I believe part of the remote problem is that the app was only good for a few versions of iOS. Even assuming you had old hardware and the right version of iOS, it is too old for the app store. So much for basing a remote on a phone app.I’m still waiting to hear what console flopped.
I would generally agree with this sentiment. I think the circumstances in this case are a little more complicated. The manufacturer released a statement in 2017 saying that to continue to use the old app you must not upgrade from iOS 10. If they had given him the file he would have to jailbreak an old device to side load the app.It seems to me that the fundamental question in the OP is this:
"If my vendor does a major rev of my console model, is it unreasonable of them not to provide the final firmware release, and to still provide a remote app which talks to that final firmware release?"
And the answer to that, of course, is yes. They may or may not support the old gear, but releasing a new app which only talks to the newer console hardware, and *no longer providing* the app that talks to the old version is, in my professional opinion, more than somewhat of a dick move.
It stems, in my experience, largely from not properly understanding the mobile-app environment: if you're going to flag day your app, you don't release it as a version upgrade; you release it as a new app... for precisely this reason.
There are hundreds of theatres still running Express 24/48 consoles from the mid-90's
So if it only runs on iOS 10 and before, could an iPad 2 be purchased from eBay and would the app still download from the App Store? In this case, the vendor didn't technically drop anything except customer support.
Even if they only released it as an update, the App Store keeps the previous versions for devices that don't support the new versions unless the developer decides to manually delete them.
Even if they only released it as an update, the App Store keeps the previous versions for devices that don't support the new versions unless the developer decides to manually delete them.
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