Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

Jan, I have no idea about Yamaha’s app development, but as an iOS developer, I can tell you a little bit about what Apple is doing.

A couple of years ago, Apple made it clear to developers that they were moving away from 32-bit apps in favor of a 64-bit platform, and the company stopped accepting developer submission of 32-bit apps to the iTunes Store. There was a certain amount of both logic and inconvenience to this situation.

Some months ago, the iOS operating system for iOS 10 started putting up an obnoxious message when you launched a 32-bit app, saying that it “might” slow down the device. Apple made no claim that any particular app actually did slow down the device. It appeared to me as though Apple was trying to shame developers publicly into updating their apps. Regrettably, Apple provides not way for a developer to sell upgrades, and this message put a lot of pressure on developers to spend their resources giving away free updates.

More recently, the message has changed to the message that you have cited. Indeed, Apple could turn off support for 32-bit apps in a future version of the operating system.

Additionally, from time-to-time, Apple deprecates certain system calls and apps that use those system calls have to be updated.

I don’t know if the Mark IV app is 32-bit nor whether it uses system calls that have become deprecated for future operating systems. All I can tell you is that this sort of dance between Apple and the developers goes on and developers eventually have to fall in line with Apple’s rules and regulations.

Regards,
PianoBench



> On Jun 4, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Jan Silverman jancarlsilverman@... <mailto:jancarlsilverman@...> [disklavier] <disklavier@...m <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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> I'm new to this forum so I apologize if my question  has been answered. 
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> When I start my Apple IOS Disklavier Mark IV App. I get a message something like:
> App out of date, may not run on future releases, tell your provider. 
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> I have the latest release from the App Store. V 1.2.2
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> Does anyone know what Yamaha is doing about this? 
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> Jan 
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