Yup, I saw that. I can't really find a compelling reason to support iOS 3.x - besides older device support - which is not really compelling (iPhone 1, iPod Touch 1st Gen).
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems reasonable to me. Did you see this blog post from the guy who > writes the Instapaper app? > > http://www.marco.org/2011/08/13/instapaper-ios-device-and-version-stats-update > > 96% of the users of Instapaper are on iOS 4.2 or better. > > Simon Mac Donald > http://hi.im/simonmacdonald > > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe we've had this discussion before but no decision was made (I >> think?) - time to re-visit. >> >> I propose we only support iOS 4.2 going forward (in 1.4?) since it >> offers the most features built-in to the UIWebView: >> http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-html5 >> On the native Objective-C side, supporting iOS 4 will also allow us to >> use blocks http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2010/7/28/ios4-blocks-1 >> which is a fundamental technology used in all of their framework APIs >> since iOS 4 >> >> Risk factors: >> * Plugin problems - plugins using blocks in native code cannot be used >> on iOS 3. This can be mitigated with support for PhoneGap versions (as >> well as built in macros for iOS versions) in pre-processor macros, so >> this can be conditionally compiled. This can be solved with versioning >> in our future proposed plugin packaging >> * Possibly maintaining a iOS 3.x branch at the last iOS 3.x supported >> PhoneGap version for bug fixes -- for those that want to still use >> that version -- don't really want to do this though >> >> We stopped iOS 2.x support when iOS 4.x came out (thus, we usually >> only supported one version back from the current OS version). >> >> [iPhone] >> The oldest iPhone to have iOS 4.2 support is the iPhone 3G (released >> July 2008 - 3+ yrs old, discontinued). Current iPhone is the 4S, 3 >> models ahead. >> [iPod Touch] >> The oldest iPod Touch to have iOS 4.2 support is the iPod Touch 2nd >> Generation (released Sep 2008 - 3+ yrs old, discontinued). Current >> iPod Touch is the 4th Gen, 2 models ahead. >> [iPad] >> The oldest iPad to have iOS 4.2 support is the iPad 1 (released April >> 2010, 1+ yrs old, reportedly discontinued). Current iPad is the iPad >> 2, 1 model ahead. >> >
