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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by kllrnohj on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:08PM (#11346806)
No, they're running 2+ year old OSes, not 2+ year old apps.

Just like Windows 7 still runs the latest Chrome despite being a whopping 6 years old, so, too, does Android KitKat run the latest Chrome.

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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by krisdol on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:39PM (#11347072)
You still need to write apps to be compatible with 2+ year old OSes if you want them to be able to install those apps. You don't get infinite forward compatibility for free. There are many updates I stopped being able to get on Android 2.x after 4 was released.
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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by zanny on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:36PM (#11350412)
The market share of <Android 4.0 is small enough now to ignore, especially if you are also ignoring iOS entirely. Definitely not enough to stop you from writing a webapp in the first place.
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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by kllrnohj on Thursday March 24, 2016 @12:02PM (#11353892)
We're talking about websites here, not native apps.

So... no, you don't. Browsers already did the compatibility work for you.

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