Many ask this question after updating to iOS 11, when will your old apps be updated to work with iOS 11? The answer to this question is not easy ... First, we must answer the question: Why do some applications not work on iOS 11? Are all applications can be easily updated? And why did we not update our applications and many other Arab and foreign developers?

 

Why are some apps not working on iOS 11?

Apple decided to stop all applications that were developed with 32Bit architecture (the speed of transferring data to the processor), and it took this step until it deletes all old development packages from the iOS 11 operating system, so that these libraries and their codes do not occupy excessive space and the system resources do not disrupt the operation of these codes Old and slow.

And what Apple did is wonderful and brave, and not only that, Apple did not stop at this point, but rather removed hundreds of thousands of applications from the App Store, while other companies boast about the number of applications in its store, Apple has eliminated a large number of old and outdated applications and their mouthpieces. We care about the quality, not the number of apps.

So in the end, from our point of view, what Apple has done is in the interest of the user, not the developer, and also until Apple is a pioneer in supporting 64Bit architecture, which is the first to support it in mobile phones and is responsible for the smoothness of the system and the speed of application response.

 

So why don't developers update their apps to 64bit?

Because updating is not easy or simple, most of the applications were developed with an old version of the XCode development tool, and even the same application is built with the latest version of XCode, many errors appear that sometimes require writing most of the application code again, and this matter is tedious and requires time, effort and a lot of Money to achieve.

 

Even if it takes effort and money, what is the user's fault?

The problem is that the user thinks that when he buys an application, he has the right to update this application and develop it throughout his life and bequeath it to his children, and when he does not lose $ 3 full dollars in it, and the truth is that this concept is wrong, not all applications can be developed forever, especially the applications that he pays for once. The developer loses the ability at some point to increase sales and therefore when the application stops entering a price that is sufficient for the cost of updates, the developer stops, the user pays the price of the application as it is and as he bought it and has no right for this application to happen or its capabilities are increased because development and application industry work like any Work When this business stops generating profits, the person does not continue with it.

If Facebook, Twitter, or any application stops generating profits, the company will stop developing it and will not support or talk to it, and in the end it will be closed, and there are many examples of free or pricey applications that stop being updated or closed due to the ineffectiveness of continuing with them.

 

I will not allow you not to update applications?

This is what we heard unfortunately from some users, who used developer applications for years, and today after Apple stopped these applications, they tell developers that they will not forgive them, during these years they may not have heard from them a word of thanks or a prayer for good, but now they finally hear that he will not forgive them and about What? About something Apple did, Apple was the one who stopped the applications from working, and Apple made it difficult to update these applications, and all of this, as we mentioned, is for your benefit and not in the interest of the developer, and in the end the developer is the one who bears the cost, and you will not forgive this developer and you do not have any problem with the company The giant giant that if it wanted to make these applications work or facilitate the update it would do so. Therefore, we do not think that the developer is to blame, as he did his work to the fullest and made many users happy for the longest time and fulfilled his task, and if someone is to blame for this matter, we blame the one who killed the developers' applications, we blame the killer and not the victim.

Apple is the companions of the software store, not the developer

When you buy an application from the software store, you buy it from Apple, not the developer, and if this application carries any defect, you must communicate with Apple to refund its price to you, and if you are affected that the applications stop their work and it is not enough for you for the period that you used them and you see that you have any right, contact Apple asked them to refund the price of the app.

 

Not even hoping to develop new apps?

We do not know about most of the developers, some of them told us that they are working on updating applications, but this will take some time, and some of them have already deleted old applications or deleted them by Apple, as for us, we stopped developing applications several years ago, and the reason is the change of the application development climate Which has become not dependent on selling the application, but mostly on ads and selling user information, and in the Arab world ads do not generate any sufficient income, especially if the developer takes care to delete bad ads, and we have done our part thanks to God and there are many Arab developers now and many great applications, We have laid the foundations for a good application since the inception of the software store and most of the applications are ahead of their time, so that some of our old applications that did not happen for years are still better than many modern applications.

 

So what's the solution, I'm so attached to these apps?

Clinging to old apps, not changing and looking for new is what makes developers with great apps lose hope of having users for their apps. Try new apps Search the software store for apps that do the same thing as old apps. Try to adapt to the change, these applications have ended and will not return, just as I changed from Nokia to iPhone other than an application with a better one.

 

Facts absent from the user

Applications ask for a large operating fee, and if the profit from them is not enough, these fees are sometimes forced by the developer to stop the application even if it does not have any defect, an application such as App - returned an operational cost of up to $ 750 per month, an application such as the Koran, the cost of its operation reaches $ 300 per month And it increases according to the number of copies that are downloaded. An application like Sync costs $ 5000 per month and increases according to the number of users. These are just examples, the applications do not run on their own and the servers and services are not free.

 

In the end

There are some applications that we are working on updating at the present time, and accordingly an update will be issued for each of them ...

‎Mus'haf | iPhone Quran Islam
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Phone Islam - Apple and technology news
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‎Arabic TTS - Speak
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Hijri Reminder - My personal diary
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‎Clock Chime
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Dictionary (Arabic/English dictionary + translation widget)
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Qibla-AR + Prayer Times
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‎App3ad | August-Ad
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ElaSalaty: Muslim Prayer Times
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chameleon keyboard keyboard
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Hisnii - Duaa and Reminders
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As for the rest of the applications, they need to be re-developed, so we will put their source and codes so that they are open source for every developer interested in re-developing or updating them, so there is hope that they will be available again in the software store, and we will announce this, God willing, when the codes are initialized.

What apps have you lost after updating to iOS 11, and what alternative app are you using right now?

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