Timeline for Why do apps stop supporting older Android versions after some time?
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| Mar 6, 2021 at 7:46 | comment | added | tim | To get back to Android, only supporting Chrome would be akin to only supporting above Oreo. Oreo is still not EOL and has a marketshare of above 15%. Deciding not to support it would be an odd decision which imho justifies questioning why that is. Marshmallow (OPs example) also still has significant usage (around 6%), but it was EOL in 2017. Not having security updates for 3+ years would imho be a good example of a valid reason to drop support. | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 7:42 | comment | added | tim | I think your browser example is a bit too extreme. Netscape isn't supported because its EOL was 2008. Edge/FF/Safari/etc are still actively developed. According to your first link, Edge has a marketshare of 11.4% (and a constant upwards trend). Firefox has 6.5%. That's still pretty significant. Chrome has 68%, so if you only support Chrome, you exclude 32% of users. Your second link has very different percentages (safari rises to a significant 19%), but shows the same problem (only supporting Chrome excludes 37% of users). | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 18:52 | history | answered | computercarguy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |