Its only fairly recently that Android got TLS 1.2 support with 4.1 in 2012. The problem is that for years budget Chinese android phones were shipping with 2.3, which was very light on resources and good for low powered phones with minimal ram.
I believe this changed with an effort to use less ram and cpu with 4.4 or 5.0, but by then millions of these phones were sold and are still out there. Heck, up until a year or two ago, these were on shelves in the US at budget places like Cricket. I think almost 10% of Androids in the wild still don't support 1.2. Maybe more considering Google has limited snooping abilities in China and may not fully know the extent of these installs.
IE7/IE8/IE9 have a combined global marketshare of about 8% also.
> The problem is that for years budget Chinese android phones were shipping with 2.3, which was very light on resources and good for low powered phones with minimal ram.
Not just budget Chinese phones. Low-end Samsung phones and such, too.
I believe this changed with an effort to use less ram and cpu with 4.4 or 5.0, but by then millions of these phones were sold and are still out there. Heck, up until a year or two ago, these were on shelves in the US at budget places like Cricket. I think almost 10% of Androids in the wild still don't support 1.2. Maybe more considering Google has limited snooping abilities in China and may not fully know the extent of these installs.
IE7/IE8/IE9 have a combined global marketshare of about 8% also.