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krisdol on March 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS

You still need to write apps to be compatible with 2+ year old OSes if you want them to be able to install those apps. You don't get infinite forward compatibility for free. There are many updates I stopped being able to get on Android 2.x after 4 was released.

zanny on March 24, 2016 | [–]

The market share of <Android 4.0 is small enough now to ignore, especially if you are also ignoring iOS entirely. Definitely not enough to stop you from writing a webapp in the first place.

kllrnohj on March 24, 2016 | [–]

We're talking about websites here, not native apps.

So... no, you don't. Browsers already did the compatibility work for you.

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