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I am curious, would an app, say a music player written for iOS in 2015, be usable in 2025?

For Android, I can say that it would have to be re-written ~30% or so. The entire permission model has evolved

  - iOS style runtime permissions
  - permission to access local files
  - permission to display notification
  - special "Foreground service" to run the app in the background ... 
All of these emerged in the last 10 years.



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