Google after the release of the new Android cyclic returned to publish the statistics fragmentation. At first and even second glance, however, little has changed in the tables because the system version 5.0 Lollipop one month after the release is still absent. This means that the latest distribution green robot uses less than 0.1 percent. users.
Comparing the data for the subsequent distribution of Android that are in use today, it would seem that this fragmentation already stale finally gone into oblivion. After all, the table is already just five versions of the system.
However, if you look closely, the problem of fragmentation has never been as serious as now.
In fact, this version because it is not five, and seven. Jelly Bean code name was used in the end, in three consecutive editions available throughout the year and a half. What’s more, the youngest of them barely exceeded one third of the shares in the market, although it is available for a year. And no, I am not wrong to mention the ponytail as the youngest of them, as his successor in the form of a lollipop yet collected in the last week of November, Google can not see the data.
Android 5.0 Lollipop exists only in theory.
Of course, I do not deny the fact that Android 5.0 was introduced very recently, and the process of updating the distribution system is laborious and time-consuming. Just as equipment manufacturers count on the pads, since even Google itself indefinitely delayed issuing updates to Lollipop on their own, selected, fresh Nexus – which by the way promised holders instant updates, like iOS and the iPhones?
The few devices on which you installed the Android 5.0 users, this is less than a thousand of all equipment in use (specifically linking the store with applications on Google Play, as only counts the company from Mountain View). It should be emphasized that devices such as the Motorola new smartphone and tablet Nexus 6 HTC Nexus 9, the Polish edition of the LG G3 Tablet Nvidia Shield players and a select few other devices are a drop in the ocean.
Do not forget to think about it, this time Google has given room to maneuver producers in June outlining Android L.
But you have not used and not prepared an update on time. The model in question is Apple’s upgrade. The Cupertino company can not be denied that works almost like clockwork. First look at the system we get to the beginning of the summer, during WWDC. In the autumn with the launch of new mobile update is released for owners of older (even several years) devices – for everyone, without exception, on the same day, at the same time, as well as subsequent patches. Of course, the servers are able to przytkać, but it spreads Apple competition on the shoulder.
Of course there are errors like “uceglający” iPhone 6 and 6 Plus iPhone iOS 8.0.1 update unfortunate. You also can not forget that Apple controls the hardware and software, many new features are available for older devices, and so on. You can even be argued that older devices do not have the same opportunities as the latest products in the portfolio, and the type of the OTA update to the new iOS and requires the user to shockingly enough free space in the memory of smartphones and tablets (where the latter problem is solved by iTunes).
Apple, however, solve problems quickly, updates are available immediately to all and dice the software for older equipment is usually logically justified.
It is true that this year a little messed up users, because they do not update their equipment so cheerfully as when they would have wished Apple – even though it’s still a few months since the release of iOS and 8 it is this version prevails reserve. In the case of iOS seven years ago, the market more quickly adopted the new version of the software; probably because the changes were in the end much more visible. Jony Ive then remodeled the entire interface and thrown out all the projects based on Skeuomorph.
Now we can look at the other side of the barricade, which is a modern Android 5.0 Holo interface Lollipop porzucającego introducing Material Design. It’s also a huge change in the visual (for the better). It turns out, however, that after a month still share falls … within statistical error. Android users do not update their equipment with such verve, such as iOS-sheep, because the world simply can not do it.
Even if the Nexus, where Google “controls the software and hardware”, the matter is not so obvious, and the holders of expensive equipment with modems LTE customers are treated as second-class.
Android 5.0, users of Google can only watch screenshots, and Material Design as yet manifested only as an update to the selected application. Not only do users not counting some lucky they did not get the new features of the system, code named Lollipop (including a redesigned notifications), but also on their devices introduces a mish-mash.
Looking at the merciless statistics do not understand the decision to allow the introduction of Google Material Design for legacy devices. As such. Gmail version Holo had features in common with the Mail application system, so the latest version of the mail application does not match the old caps in any way. Android was not known ever to the consistency in the interface, but now it’s even worse.
And it will not change quickly.
A glance at the table presented by Google shows that Android 5.0 yet in it … not existed. Further information can be found in not only dry, but even moldy spice cake. Archaic Android 2.3 Gingerbread installed is still 9.1 percent. devices, which gives a slight decrease of 9.8 percent from a month ago. Android 2.2 Froyo to rest goes slow steps – a decrease of 0.6 percent. at 0.5 percent.
In the other cells of the table can not see major changes. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now 7.8 percent. shares, an increase of 0.7 percentage points. less than a month ago. For Jelly Bean counted as a whole it’s now 48.7 percent, nearly half of the market; in November jellies can be found at 50.9 percent. smartphones and tablets.
What’s the most interesting is the fact that all distributions Jelly Bean lose equally.
The oldest of them, that Android 4.1 was down by 1.5 percentage points. to the result of 21.3 percent. Android 4.2 can today boast of 20.4 percent. market share, an increase of 0.4 percentage points. less than in November. The youngest of the three, which is Android 4.3 Jelly Bean is now responsible for 7 percent. the market of smartphones and tablets, when a month ago it was 7.3 percent.
These changes, however, are minimal, as is the increase in the minimum KitKatów market. Android 4.4 is now 33.9 percent. current mobile devices with green robot, which is only 3.7 percentage points. more than in the past statistics. Just wait, however, until it starts to lose share to Lollipop – Nestle chocolate bar before nipped jellies.
Of course, for the right to mention the fact that many of the new products added to the new version of Android goes to older equipment in the form of Google update Play Services.
But Google can boast, because he found a way to partially solve the problem of lack of updates a bit to be around. It happened, however, I feared a year ago. New Android introduces a completely new interface, and Material Design for Google Play Services smuggle impossible.
The manufacturers of equipment with covers will have to wait until next year, but the update will still only a few selected equipment. Updates to live to see only the most expensive, the most popular and most prestigious smartphones and tablets on offer. The rest will only be able to “lick the lollipop through the glass.”
The problem of fragmentation can now be seen as never before …
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