Well... Not trying to create a polemic here, but you can ask that to persons who earn $10USD a day, and yes, many of these persons have a very-old-yet-cheap smartphone
2015-01-13 12:33 GMT-06:00 Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com>: > Agreed. That would mean that 3.7.x would be the last release where we > support Android 2.3.x. I don't think that MozillaView is in a good enough > state for us to recommend that path to users. At this point, I can say > that the owners of these 78 million phones should buy a new phone. It's > not like a phone running KitKat can't be bought for $100. > > On Tue Jan 13 2015 at 10:26:17 AM Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > I agree, we're not really supporting these devices, and it is > disingenuous > > of the project to advertise that we do. Any apps concerning themselves > with > > privacy/security won't be targeting or testing on those devices either. > > > > I think a clean break w/ the message 4.x === 4.x, coupled with many > > webviews and we have a very solid forward looking release. > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Does it really matter? I think Joe summarized it best, we can only > claim > > > to support what is actually being supported (aka actively tested, > > actively > > > maintained). Market share doesn't impact that. > > > > > > Not that we should not actively break 2.3 support, but with 3.7 on the > > > horizon, and big changes coming in 4.0, it would be nice to signal that > > as > > > the last version supporting 2.3 and have us be free to make changes > that > > > cannot be compatible with the older version. > > > > > > -Michal > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > So, where are these numbers coming from? Can we get a breakdown by > > > region? > > > > > > > > On Tue Jan 13 2015 at 3:30:23 AM Marcel Kinard <cmarc...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Another stat: Forbes estimates that the existing number of Android > > > phones > > > > > is 1.56 billion. Five percent of that is 78 million. > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 13, 2015, at 1:14 AM, Ally Ogilvie <aogil...@wizcorp.jp> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > moar stats: > > > > > > https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/android_os_adoption/ > > > > > from_date:-365,to_date:0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera IBM Software Engineer Guadalajara, Jalisco
