But statistics do not explain this number

[rakibhasan]

You don’t know whether they downloaded the latest version of Spotify or rather some granddaughter downloaded kind of “daily Diogenes’s quote” for her grandmother, or maybe smartphone used as the main phone in the office just needed another Floppy Bird makeover.

You never know and if you ask me, that 7 % are cases like this or just people who don’t really like to change their phone so often (four years, for heaven’s sake!), which means that if they are not really into modern releases they won’t be probably interested in your app.

Why App Founders Should Forget Android 4.4 KitKat

Solution?
Yes, there is. I remember one brilliant ad from IKEA. It started with people collecting things to get rid with. Sad music in the background. A woman takes the lamp from the night numero bulgarie table and drags it away, leaves it near the garbage container outside, in the rain, at night, sad music escalates, zoom in to the lamp which seems now to observe through the window its former family in a warm and cozy house. And then a man comes in and says “Many of you feel bad for this lamp – that is because you’re crazy! It has no feelings and the new one is much better”.

So, to sum up, a solution is in our hands – force people to throw away their retro devices and make them buy new ones! Once they aren’t able to install or use efficiently new apps they will change their phones! It is us who actually stop the industry, explanation why Android 8.1 is on the level of statistical error.

I would say that Android 6 is a reasonable choice. The most popular release currently which is fully understandable, released Q2 2015, considering that Android 9 is still brand new and few devices have it, it is absolutely fine to support third oldest version (if we skip X.1 releases for Nougat and Oreo) of the OS.

If I was to create my own manifesto as a person involved in the mobile app development that would be “x – 3” which means that we shouldn’t support releases older than third-oldest version, and shouldn’t buy devices that have the outdated OS in them. That would keep the industry going.

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