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"That’s the beauty of Android’s massive market share, we can ignore all the people with phones running Android 2.3, those with odd and rare screen sizes, and target only 4.0 and above"

Well duh. If you ignore all the things that give you trouble/fragmentation you automagically get a trouble-free/fragmentation-free environment. Silly



I think he is trying to say that because there are so many Android devices out there, you can afford to ignore the troublesome ones and still have a huge market to cater to.


Gingerbread is down to 13.5% which is really great and with Google's new Android One program, I think you will see that number drop significantly.


You have to ask, though, if those with the old, weird and outdated devices are the users you want to target at the cost of doing more productive development for users with more recent and capable devices who obviously can afford and/or care more about their mobile experience.




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