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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
If it's a forked OS then I would think that those version distinctions become not quite as significant.
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Unless there is incompatibility. 4.0 is introducing a lot of changes, seeking to bring 2.x and 3.x together. 3.x (Honeycomb) is a fork from 2.x that sought to change much to make more usable for tablets, and 2.x (from Froyo and Gingerbread) was meant to be designed for lower end devices, or devices with smaller displays. Several new APIs are being introduced to further help this marriage, so developers can make one app that works equally well for both tablets and phones (unlike how Apple has iPad only versions of iOS apps). Due to the large amounts of changes, and new APIs meant to ease developer issues arising from tablets and phones, I foresee many apps being only compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and later.