I have some customers who bought some of those inexpensive no contract
Android phones on sale during "Black Friday" and still under $80. Those
only have 2.3 on them and might not be upgradable to 4.x. I'm betting a
lot of those were sold and will continue to be sold. Most are "small
screen" displays too (ugh!).
On 01/06/2013 12:06 AM, Kevin Duffey wrote:
Pete.. that is what I was thinking... for me anyway.. given that I would
guess in a year or so 70+% of the market, if not more should be on 4.x
android, including pretty much all the tablets save maybe a couple %, that
given that I am pretty sure my app won't be "polished" for at least 6
months before I can release it, I am leaning towards focusing on 4.0. I
suspect 4.0 will hold a share for quite some time, as a lot of devices were
updated to 4.0.x but will probably get nothing much after that. Seems most
devices last about 1 year of updates, if that, before carriers decide to
stop updating so that users will upgrade to newer devices so that they can
keep making money off of the devices. It's a shame.. I can run android 4 on
my original droid from 2+ years ago.. it's not super smooth, but it works.
There are many 1Ghz single core devices that could benefit from android 4,
but definitely a ton of dual-core devices that are apparently not going to
get updates to it but could easily handle it. I blame the people (me
included) because most of us just have to have new shiny crap every few
months or so.. and the carriers know it.. so the majority of us just can't
wait to upgrade to the next greatest thing! Shoot..I got an S3 and I want
the Note 2!!
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Pete Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
Within 6 months it will have the lions share as the GB devices come off
contract.
Pete
On Jan 5, 2013 6:44 PM, "anatoly" <[email protected]> wrote:
There is support for multiple APK in the dev console and Google Play so
one is able to maintain multiple APKs and update all of them or the most
latest.
On Friday, January 4, 2013 9:01:56 AM UTC+2, andjarnic wrote:
From what I can tell, it took about a year for Android 2.3 to push out
Android 2.2 and 2.1, and it looks like Android 4, which I think hit devices
around mid year, has moved up to about 27% of the device market within 6
months.. so is it a safe bet that by mid year, more than 50% of devices
will be running android 4.0 and later? I'd really like to have my app focus
on android 4 apis, UI layout design, etc.. but with over 55% of the market
2.3.x and below, I am just wondering if I plan for my app about 4 months or
so from now, if working on 4.x and later would be worth the risk.
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