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Re:End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices by david_allison on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:40PM (#26764949)
API 28 is released in 2018, 2 versions behind the latest.

It's a sad state of software development that we so quickly drop support for older hardware, it contributes massively to e-waste, although Android manufacturers shoulder a lot of the blame for not supporting OS upgrades.

Context: Put out a (hopefully) final release for API 16 last month. It'll mean that 15,000 people can no longer update the app. From analytics, we still have users on Android 1.5 (API 3)

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Re:End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices by spicybright on Saturday April 10, 2021 @10:49PM (#26767138)
Wowie, how many users run api 3?
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Re:End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices by david_allison on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:57AM (#26770025)
Negligible: 26 today, up from ~3 around Q4 2020.

Not sure if that's Google Play's metrics being played with, but it's shocking that there appear to be installs on something that old (it's well before TLS 1.2 support on Android, and most of the internet will be broken)

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