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Comment by jamesb93 | Hacker News Reader

Why only 10.14 and up? most devs I know havent gone past 10.12.

Mojave has been a smooth sailing from day one for me.

A few rendering issues from the move to Metal but no KPs or major incompatibilities.

Sooner or later, things stop running. On the iOS side, I was surprised to learn you can’t run Netflix on an iOS 9 device.

I think the days of hanging on to old system versions are over.

Some of us with mac pros or hackintosh literally can't update to mojave, because of missing nvidia drivers. And high sierra was such a clusterfuck that I'm glad I missed out on it.

Uh. I have an old iPad1 that can’t run iOS10 but runs Netflix fine. Have you tried updating the app?

Can’t install it. Can’t be downloaded from the App Store. You probably downloaded the version that did some time ago and it just continued to run

That’s surprising. Netflix works on the original iPad with iOS 5.

But can you download it from the App Store or is it just running the old version? I couldn't.

If you have downloaded it previously, it prompts you if you want to “download the last compatible version”. As long as you’ve downloaded it previously you can redownload it.

Yeah, but if you haven’t, you are out of luck

You can download the app using an older version of iTunes.

https://www.lifewire.com/download-apps-to-ipad-using-itunes-...

Once it shows up as a previous purchase in your account, you can download it from your iPad. You don’t have to sync with iTunes.

Nice, thanks

Sierra (10.12) isn't supported for long:

"Extended support ends in September 2019. iTunes, in August 2020" [1]

And while High Sierra (10.13) had its quirks [for which I could understand your response, plus all non Retina only work with 10.13 as latest, officially), Mojave (10.14) has been smooth. If not only for the dark mode (finally!).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sierra

Details on 10.14 APIs are in this mailing list post: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-February/00...

Curious - how do devs develop on a 2.5 year old OS. Aren’t there risks that things won’t work in recent releases?

We test with machines that have it, but we don't operate day to day on 10.14. It's more about offering backwards compatibility so the majority of users can benefit.

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