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by guelo 4472 days ago
As far as OS version fragmentation, iOS 6 and Android 2.x are both running on approximately 20% of their respective ecosystems. But for some reason iOS developers are more ruthless in cutting off older devices. I recently convinced a very insistent company to drop Android 2.x support after I pointed out that they had already dropped iOS 6 support without giving it a second thought.
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iOS 6 was released fall 2012, the last release of Android 2.x was in 2011. A better comparison would be Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to iOS 6 - that's 35% of the android base on ancient versions (pre 4.1, relative to iOS's 4%)

cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_6 http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/05/apple-pegs-ios-7-d...

I guess more iPhone users have the opportunity to upgrade for free than Android users.
So, now you support one version on each platform?
One major version with several minor versions. iOS 7.0 and 7.1, and Android 4.0 through 4.4.