Android in May: every third unit under the control of Jelly Bean - Computer World (press release)

33% active and are included in the statistics of Google Android devices are now working under the supervision of one of the two most recent versions of known as Jelly Bean (4.1 and 4.2). Compared to April, so we have quite a growth of 4.6%.

On the one hand it is a result of the recent updates to smart phones by HTC, Sony, Samsung and major operating more and more Chinese manufacturers. Sorry, you need to be emphasized Jelly Bean gains the most by not updating the firmware, but thanks to the ever-increasing sales of new machines. This is good news. The problem is that it masks a sad reality.

Android Fragmentation is a never-ending headache for Google – you can see it in the statistics and helped change counting system version. Now more than two years Android 2.3 Gingerbread is still the undisputed king of the market and do not really want to go out of date. For Google and developers deliver applications to Google Play its 36.5% share of the market is quite perplexing. If the Gingerbread suddenly disappeared, there would be virtually no problems with compatibility of applications written for Android. Working under the control of smartphones today are often somewhat hardware from a previous era, and thus inconvenient for Google and application developers anchor.

Android 2.3 but does not want to disappear, and in the last month of his popularity declined hardly at less than half of what they earned at the time Jelly Bean. So, we have a clear signal that poorly Gingerbread update today and it really needs to be out of the market spall. Simply put – users of Android smartphones with the old, must buy a new smartphone.

manufacturers do not face it, such a scenario would be very handy. The problem is that smartphones are not cheap and a good portion of users sharing a dim view of the holder is still good headphones after two years. Help, of course, subsidized smartphones from operators, but they still have to pay the subscription later.

Anyway, even if you pay close range operators, they often squeeze their customers with older equipment than the current version of the system. These would fit right out of the update, which is often impossible due to lack of support from the manufacturer. In this way, we fragmentation vicious circle is closed.

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