Just yesterday I realized that a long-standing bug is fixed by iOS5, and that since nearly all of our customers will be running 3GS or newer hardware, I can depend on that fix with confidence when we release our next version soon.
Sure, but the graph seems to take user-point considerations foremost (#1), before developer-point considerations.
That chart is terribly cooked. It leaves out important devices like the Nexus S which had good support, and includes a ton of clunkers in lieu of the most popular phones (e.g. no Galaxy S variants) which tended to fare a little better.
That said, the point the post is making is valid and important. But the graphic is sensationalized junk. It's a platform flame masquerading as product research.
Considering no Android device comes even remotely close to three years of support, and three years is well outside the renewal cycles you can generally expect, I don't think that's really cooking anything.
> That chart is terribly cooked. It leaves out important devices like the Nexus S which had good support
The Nexus S is barely 10 months old, and is about phones which had been released as of June 2010, 6 months before the Nexus S appeared...
> That said, the point the post is making is valid and important. But the graphic is sensationalized junk.
It's not ideal in the least, but calling it "sensationalized junk" is pushing it too far by a long shot.