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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 17:07:55 +0000
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--> Europa-List message posted by: Rowland Carson <rowlandcarson@gmail.com>

Ira - thanks for the explanation. I thought it might be something like that.

I pretty much gave up trying to program seriously for the Mac after Think C stopped working. I did try to learn a bit about Cocoa, but it seemed every time I was getting a grip there was an update that threw new stuff at me - and then came Xcode . . . . 

in friendship

Rowland

> On 2023-12-01, at 16:29, rampil <ira.rampil@gmail.com> wrote:
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> --> Europa-List message posted by: "rampil" <ira.rampil@gmail.com>
> 
> Hi Rowland!
> I hope you are well!
> 
> Sorry about the app requiring iOS 17.
> Current market surveillance on my 26 apps in the store
> shows me that roughly 90% of current users are already 
> upgraded, and that fraction is climbing.
> 
> Most of my apps have a minimal requirement of iOS 14,
> but for this newly written app I chose to use the new
> Apple programming language called SwiftUI. It was
> a bit of a struggle to learn and it has more stringent 
> requirements in terms of what it will run on. It has a number
> of advantages in developing the user interface, supporting 
> different devices and screen sizes with fewer programming
> errors.
> 
> I did have a previous generation of the this App in the old
> Apple language of Objective C which ran on iOS 12, but
> the National Weather Service data source it used was
> discontinued, so I removed it from sale and started over.
> 
> --------
> Ira N224XS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Read this topic online here:
> 
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=512719#512719
> 
> 
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> 

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