I know that's been our Android policy; I though that iOS was roughly "we
support the current release and the one previous release", which would mean
that we're already good to start just supporting iOS 7 and 8 exclusively.

(Not that it's a big difference -- a 1-month delay is about what it would
take to get another cordova-ios release out anyway :) )

On Mon Nov 10 2014 at 10:30:35 AM Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote:

> Our policy has historically been to drop support if usage is under 5%.
> There some amount of leeway in judgement here as well: is it trivial to
> continue support or causing us pain?
>
> For iOS, 5% of usage comes from iOS6 or below as reported by
> https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/.  I'd venture and say thats
> almost all iOS 6, which puts us right on the border.
>
> That said, the support story for cordova is: all existing apps continue to
> work, if you want to target the older platform you can continue to use an
> older cordova-ios, so I think we can be bold here.  1 more month of iphone
> sales and itll be <5% usage for iOS6 ;)
>
> -Michal
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:20 PM, julio cesar sanchez <
> [email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Apple just says "earlier" 5%. That should be iOS 5 and iOS 6
> >
> > El domingo, 9 de noviembre de 2014, Terence M. Bandoian <
> [email protected]
> > >
> > escribió:
> >
> > > It might make sense to consider dropping support for an iOS version
> when
> > > usage, as reported by Apple, drops below a certain level.
> > >
> > > -Terence Bandoian
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/8/2014 5:13 PM, julio cesar sanchez wrote:
> > >
> > >> iOS 5 support was removed on cordova 3.5, released on may 2014, I
> think
> > >> it's too soon to remove iOS 6 support with all the devices left behind
> > >> (iphone 3gs and ipod touch 4gen), just to add swift plugins.
> > >>
> > >> I'm ok with dropping support to old versions when there are real
> > >> advantages
> > >> or security reasons.
> > >>
> > >> I'm limited on resources too, but I volunteer to test on my ipod touch
> > >>
> > >>
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