If this metric<http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/24/great-news-developers-apple-says-almost-25-ios-devices-ever-sold-already-ios-6/>is to be believed, 4.3.x installs account for well under 10% of all iOS installs at this point. Seems like 5.0 would be a safe bet, at least to me.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for 5.0 and above. Even my 3rd generation iPod touch has iOS 5.0. > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So, iOS 6 supports as a minimum iOS 4.3 devices (armv7 and up, no more > > armv6). > > > > I am loathe to put out a release without testing it on iOS 4.3, but I > have > > no choice since I can't find a device that has iOS 4.3 on it. I could > find > > and hack in the iOS 4.3 Simulator, but there are some device features > that > > don't work on that of course (like the accelerometer, compass, etc). > > > > You can't downgrade a device to 4.3 unless you have the shsh blobs for > 4.3 > > for your device. Most people won't have that unless they jailbroke their > > device while on 4.3. Trying it through iTunes legitimately with 4.3 > > firmware is "not allowed" by Apple's servers, they will point you to the > > latest firmware for your device, which would be iOS 6.0 for the devices > we > > support. > > > > So -- would requiring iOS 5.0 minimum for Cordova be unreasonable here? I > > can put out feelers on the PhoneGap mailing list to see what other > Cordova > > devs think as well. > > >
