Are there many devices around with early iOS Versions? [closed]

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I am to decide wether to use a comfortable function that was introduced with iOS 3.2 versus a rather complicated implementation that works fine with older versions too.

3.2 does not run on first generation devices.

Are there any statistics available that tell you how much of a potential market is excluded by setting iOS 3.2 as a minimum requirement?

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There you go. Basically, everyone uses 4.x. Nothing to fret about.

This is the link.

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This article has some good, recent stats:

http://www.marco.org/2011/08/13/instapaper-ios-device-and-version-stats-update

There's also another SO question for this - How many units of each iOS version are currently in usage? - but it's kinda old.

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There are no general, one-size-fits-all set of statistics. Mobile ad providers usually collect and publish them, but that just tells you about the people who use ad supported apps. Individual app developers might collect them and even share them, but that just tells you about who buys their app. And so on. Any stats you find will be of some subset of the population.

Even if you could get the exact number of devices out there running each version of iOS, it wouldn't really be a good answer to your question, because you're interested in them as a potential market, not just as a number of people.

And on the other side, supporting older iOS versions comes at an increased cost in your development and support time.

In other words, you need to sell enough copies of your app to iOS 3.x users to make it worth the extra time it takes doing things the hard way.

Most of the time, it is rarely worth it. Except in cases where you are selling to schools who only upgrade once every ten years, most users who buy software are going to keep their devices up to date. The rest are people who don't like to mess with their devices. Maybe they installed the free Facebook app, but they aren't going to buy your app.

So forget about them. You can sell to them in two years when they buy a new phone.

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I'd say approximately 0%. Don't bother with gen-1 devices.