Netflix, like any other company that depends on apps to deliver its services to its userstakes great care in caring for himso much so that it’s fairly common for news related to the service’s features to make it to the apps before the service’s web interface. And although those of us who have been using PCs since the year we’ve been living in began 19 forget this with some frequency, smartphone use (and even more so when we add tablet use) is superior. , in percent, the sum of PC.

Now, this commitment to constant renewal, to very frequent updating of applications, generally accompanied by new features or at least improvements in their operation, has its counterpart, namely that in many cases it is necessary to optimize the underlying development. cycle. Adopting methodologies such as DevOps makes it easier to quickly deploy updates and new features, but it necessarily requires prioritization and with them. exclusions that may affect the required agility.

in some cases Added to this are the platforms own policies. in which applications are published, conditions that also have a very direct impact on the development tools they provide. And the fact is that, for a number of reasons, these companies (mainly Apple and Google) tend to limit the scope of new development to older versions of their operating systems, i.e. Android and iOS, something that of course affects users of devices that are already several years old.

So again we find movement in this sense. And as we read in 9to5Mac, Further updates to the Netflix app will be incompatible with iOS 16 (of course also the previous version) because the service itself started informing its users through notifications in the application itself. However, it is not yet clear whether this restriction already applies to the latest update, whether it will apply to the next update, or whether it will take some time.

However, this does not mean that users of devices with iOS 16 and its derivatives will remain without access to the service. What it means is They will need to stick with the latest version of the Netflix app compatible with their devicesand continue to use it until, in the future, the Company decides that it is already too outdated and, as a result, can no longer be used to access the Service.

There will certainly be opinions for all tastes, but personally this This seems like a very clear case of planned obsolescence to me.. Now it would be necessary to have all the data to know whether to attribute it to Apple, Netflix, or a little bit of each.