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by WiseWeasel
5350 days ago
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There are several significant problems with this that do impact regular people as well: 1) Developers must invest more time and money in order to support a wider range of firmware revisions, as the user base is more fractured. This leads to less app selection for users, and more buggy behavior on apps that are available. If you're an iOS developer, you can focus on just the last major firmware revision and reach 95%+ of the market, or support the last two major firmware revisions and reach 99%+ of the market, whereas on Android, you're forced to support a few more than that, and the populations stuck at each older revision are much more significant. Read the article for Android stats by revision. Here's an article with a bit more detail on the iOS side: http://www.marco.org/2011/08/13/instapaper-ios-device-and-ve... 2) Performance and security updates are unavailable, making the user experience sub-optimal, and potentially putting users' personal information at risk. |
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