Timeline for Why do apps stop supporting older Android versions after some time?
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| Mar 5, 2021 at 20:42 | comment | added | user3067860 | Microsoft maintained backwards compatibility because their bread and butter market at the time was government+businesses who are notoriously sensitive to the price of upgrading software. Android's primary market is home users who would rather have new features and forget about the old stuff. | |
| Mar 5, 2021 at 4:44 | comment | added | Brian Drake | Judging from the Android documentation, Android also goes to great lengths to maintain compatibility. Although, in some respects, that seems to be changing now, in the interests of “privacy”. | |
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| Mar 4, 2021 at 18:59 | history | answered | Alex Cannon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |