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You can shave away a LOT of form factors if you just agree to cut off development before Android 4.0. This is tough for people to resolve to do, but in the US
by KirinDave 13y ago
You can shave away a LOT of form factors if you just agree to cut off development before Android 4.0.
This is tough for people to resolve to do, but in the US that's 60% of the market. I'd rather ship a good product to 60% of the people in a reasonable amount of time, rather than spending a ton of time working on tiny slices of the last 40% and limiting what the product can do overall.
You also end up targeting much newer devices and OS versions, which evades a lot of problems with piracy.
- krschultz 13y agoFor my market, 90% of my app's users are 4.0+. 97% of all sessions are 4.0+. I still support & test pre-4.0, but I'm starting to consider options for spending less time on Gingerbread support. Progressive enhancement helps (we just don't do a lot of things on Gingerbread at all), but it still clutters up the code. Even a few months ago I couldn't imagine dropping Gingerbread support, but I have seen almost no growth in Gingerbread users over the last 3-6 months.
- KirinDave 13y agoI am glad to hear stories like this. Thank you very much for sharing that.
- rsynnott 13y ago> You can shave away a LOT of form factors if you just agree to cut off development before Android 4.0. At that point, though, the idea that Android is a larger market really starts suffering. That cuts out a third of Android users immediately.