IE market share has been going down for years, but it's still more or less 70%
That means that by not supporting IE you don't get 70% of the market. Early adopters come and go, but "hockey stick" growth like the one Pinterest got? that comes from the mainstream market that uses IE and doesn't knows what Firefox is, and thinks that by Chrome you mean actual chrome...
But as I said IE is going down, and when it hits 50% in 2 years or less that will be the time to stop supporting IE.
That doesn't seem to be an issue for them. From the article:
> Originally, we feared that we'd receive a torrent of angry emails from avid IE users. In reality we've received exactly zero requests for IE support,
More generally, the "market share" depends very much on what you consider to be "the market". If your target audience are big companies stuck into MS support contracts then yes, IE market share is huge. If your target audience are mostly individuals with some basic knowledge on computers, they are almost certainly already using a sensible browser.
Ever seen the average user for Pinterest's? do you picture a +40-yr old woman mailing some devs because the page she's looking at didn't load? They don't bother, just leave and never come back, simple as that.
Just like IE users don't bother to find out which browser is the best they don't bother to email some unknown no-name startup they stumbled upon because the page didn't load.
And again I'm talking about a different and much bigger market than early adopters.
That means that by not supporting IE you don't get 70% of the market. Early adopters come and go, but "hockey stick" growth like the one Pinterest got? that comes from the mainstream market that uses IE and doesn't knows what Firefox is, and thinks that by Chrome you mean actual chrome...
But as I said IE is going down, and when it hits 50% in 2 years or less that will be the time to stop supporting IE.