It’s true that Trello never supported IE8, but we never promised or intended to add IE8 support. We wanted to support the browsers of today and tomorrow, which was IE9 at launch.
I stand corrected then, you never even tried to get the IE crowd.
But my point that you're misreading numbers remains. You see low IE9 usage because you don't have IE users, because, in the previous years, up to 80% of them couldn't use your product.
And now you're using these numbers to back your decision that you don't need IE9. Guess what? You won't see IE adoption grow much over the next years as well.
IE users means enterprises. By dropping IE9 now, you're again running faster than them. That's perfectly fine and I'm actually jealous, I wish I could do the same. At the same time, I'm sure it has a measurable impact on the potential market of your Trello business class product.
But my point that you're misreading numbers remains. You see low IE9 usage because you don't have IE users, because, in the previous years, up to 80% of them couldn't use your product.
And now you're using these numbers to back your decision that you don't need IE9. Guess what? You won't see IE adoption grow much over the next years as well.
IE users means enterprises. By dropping IE9 now, you're again running faster than them. That's perfectly fine and I'm actually jealous, I wish I could do the same. At the same time, I'm sure it has a measurable impact on the potential market of your Trello business class product.