On: Dealing with Android fragmentation – experiences from our startup

[pisarzp]

This still doesn't change the fact that phones using 2.2 are ancient and users are probably uninterested in downloading apps, so you can safely ignore them.

It's a high percentage, but mainly because of negative selection. People who don't care about apps bought cheapest Android phones.

[ProblemFactory → pisarzp]

I wish Google disclosed more statistics than "worldwide active users" for the Android versions.

If they published additional details, for example:

* filtering by country/city,

* filtering by age or demographics,

* "total money spent on apps" instead of active users,

then developers could be more confident in supporting 4.0+ only (and convincing their clients or employers to do so).

[masklinn → pisarzp]

> This still doesn't change the fact that phones using 2.2 are ancient and users are probably uninterested in downloading apps

That is a completely unsupported assertion.