From InfoWorld: Google today said that it would stop serving updates to Chrome for Android on devices running Android 4.0.x, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), in mid-April.
By the time Google halts updates to Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the three-year-old mobile operating system's share of all Android editions should have shrunk to just above 5 percent.
Those ICS users who rely on Chrome will be left without a way to patch security vulnerabilities in the browser, and will have to make a decision: Run Chrome nonetheless; move to a still-supported browser, like Firefox, Opera or a version of the old "stock" Android browser many device makers preloaded on their phones; update Android, if that's possible on the device; or acquire a new smartphone or tablet.
"Developing new features on older phones has become increasingly challenging, and supporting ICS takes time away from building new experiences on the devices owned by the vast majority of our users," wrote Aurimas Lutikas, a Google software engineer, on the Chromium blog today.
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