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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1550962" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Unfortunately, it isn't a matter of a demanding game or not..</p><p></p><p>Let's talk Android for a second, one of the most popular versions of Android was Gingerbread, since then there has been Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. Kit Kat was JUST released and is slow rolling out to the various phones.</p><p></p><p>But if you look at the break-down of all Android phones and what version of the OS was running on them, Gingerbread took up a respectively 25% or more. So app developers (even ones that create the simplest app) used Gingerbread as the baseline OS for their support. That meant, they had to have a device running Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean to test their app on to make sure that it all worked well.</p><p></p><p>Now with the release of Kit Kat, a lot of people on Gingerbread are moving over to ICS or Jelly Bean. With the dwindling percentage, app developers can drop Gingerbread support.</p><p></p><p>Now the support gets dropped in a update of the existing app. If you happen to be the unlucky soul with the now 3+ year old phone running Gingerbread, your app gets stuck at the version it's on. Now, for some apps that isn't a problem. For other apps, the app might stop working until you update, and you can't update the app since your OS version is too old. Your options are to stop using that app or upgrade your phone to get a newer OS.</p><p></p><p>Looking at iOS, there are folks still out there using iPhone 3G/3GS. These phones are stuck on iOS 4 and cannot upgrade. There is iOS 5, iOS 6 and iOS 7. Do you really think an app developer is going to go out of their way to support iOS 4? The answer is no, and that means iPhone 3G/3GS users are out of luck. And to be honest, most app developers usually stick with the current version of an OS and one version prior. So iOS 6 and iOS 7..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1550962, member: 110816"] Unfortunately, it isn't a matter of a demanding game or not.. Let's talk Android for a second, one of the most popular versions of Android was Gingerbread, since then there has been Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. Kit Kat was JUST released and is slow rolling out to the various phones. But if you look at the break-down of all Android phones and what version of the OS was running on them, Gingerbread took up a respectively 25% or more. So app developers (even ones that create the simplest app) used Gingerbread as the baseline OS for their support. That meant, they had to have a device running Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean to test their app on to make sure that it all worked well. Now with the release of Kit Kat, a lot of people on Gingerbread are moving over to ICS or Jelly Bean. With the dwindling percentage, app developers can drop Gingerbread support. Now the support gets dropped in a update of the existing app. If you happen to be the unlucky soul with the now 3+ year old phone running Gingerbread, your app gets stuck at the version it's on. Now, for some apps that isn't a problem. For other apps, the app might stop working until you update, and you can't update the app since your OS version is too old. Your options are to stop using that app or upgrade your phone to get a newer OS. Looking at iOS, there are folks still out there using iPhone 3G/3GS. These phones are stuck on iOS 4 and cannot upgrade. There is iOS 5, iOS 6 and iOS 7. Do you really think an app developer is going to go out of their way to support iOS 4? The answer is no, and that means iPhone 3G/3GS users are out of luck. And to be honest, most app developers usually stick with the current version of an OS and one version prior. So iOS 6 and iOS 7.. [/QUOTE]
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