[aerogear-dev] [iOS] Apple requires iOS 7 for new apps/updates by Feb 1st

[Karel Piwko]

Interesting. Do you think this will increase iOS7 adoption?

Can this be translated as that AG web based stuff does not need
to support Mobile Safari distributed in iOS 6 (or even previous versions)
neither?

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:31:50 +0100
Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in December, while I was away, I missed an email from Apple Developer,
> telling that by Feb. 1st all app submissions to the store need to be
> 'optimized'  for iOS 7.
> 
> "Starting February 1, new apps and app updates submitted to the App Store
> must be built with the latest version of Xcode 5 and must be optimized for
> iOS 7. "
> 
> 
> That's an interesting statement; also for our iOS libraries... - So....
> looks like we can simply remove the 'support' / linkage of older SDKs, and
> straight update to iOS 7...
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 
> -Matthias
> 
> [1] https://developer.apple.com/news/
> [2]
> http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/17/apple-requiring-all-app-submissions-to-be-optimized-for-ios-7-by-feb-1st/
>