A peek at official figures shows what BBC is missing by not supporting older Android devices The BBC iPlayer streamed 5.2m more programmes to Apple mobile devices than it did to devices running Android 2.2 “Froyo” software in July this year, figures released through a Freedom of Information request show. Viewing of the BBC’s popular on-demand service is only supported for Android devices running version 2.2 due to its Flash capability. That puts the vast majority of Android devices being used unable to play the content, despite having a version of Flash Player
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Apple handhelds streamed 5m iPlayer programmes in July – 6,000 on Android 2.2 devices
