Android 5.0 is really great, thoughtful and nuanced operating system. Despite a few glitches developers can even be tempted to say that this Lollipop is the first edition of the mobile OS from Google, which should not even teases beta tag clipped. But what of that, since a few months since the release of the use of only a handful of members?
The new distribution of Google’s operating system debuted in early November of last year, but the first Android version 5.0 we saw in June. Google has prepared a preview version, called Android mysteriously L, and during the conference Google I / O has shown a new interface called Material Design.
That was eight months ago.
Google followed in the footsteps of Apple and before the summer showed how you want your new system, which lived to its launch at the end of the year. So we could have hoped that these few months will allow producers to start early work on the preparation of an upgrade, and this time Google would develop in time updating their Nexus.
The situation is not as awful as never before. Presentation Android L over the months prior to the actual debut Lollipop gave nothing. Android 5.0 in February 2015 or the first quarter of its launch hit a record low number of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Manufacturers announcements after buńczucznych now hide your head in the sand.
Even Google gave a concert of the body with the update.
Giant Mountain View has a special line of reference devices with Android. In the beginning was intended for developers, but for a few years more smartphones and tablets from this family are designed for a mass audience. You can buy not only by the Google Play, but also in supermarkets of electronics and mobile operators.
The most important advantage of Nexus were to be timely updates. No cap manufacturer and operator branding was to eliminate the problem of fragmentation. That has not happened, and Google did not provide an update in the form in which it performs a competitor giant, or Apple. Especially this year, customers who have chosen to Nexus 7 tablet with LTE modem, is severely messed up.
Update Nexus 7 with SIM card slot will not begin until now!
It’s just ridiculous that Google, which is a developer of smart glasses and autonomous vehicles for three months was not able to update their own tablet, which was supposed to be a showcase of the entire Android. Taking this into account it is no surprise that global Lollipop simply does not exist.
On the developers.android.com reappeared fragmentation statistics on Google’s operating system. Although intended for developers of mobile applications, but the graphs and tables are available to the public. Anyone interested can read them, they are popular with individual distributions.
The good news is that finally Lollipop appeared on the chart.
analyzing the data a month ago, I could not get over that Android 5.0 in two months after the release of absentee statement. This month Lollipop finally appeared, but expressed as a percentage number of people benefiting from this version only raises a smile of pity. Presentation Android L for a few months before the actual release of Lollipop did not help solve the problem of fragmentation.
It turns out that the latest version of the mobile Google hit on just 1.6 percent. devices that for a week from 26 January to 2 February this year were connected with the shop Google Play. Among the systems listed in the table, only one made a weaker result (0.4 per cent.), And it is the Android 2.2 Froyo, which debuted in … 2010, or nearly 5 years ago. This result has not changed since last month.
Comparing the data prior to the month of the current stagnation seen.
The producers did not rush to update their devices, and Lollipop hit – in addition, but only selected Nexus – only a few smartphones, mostly those from the top shelf. At the turn of 2014 and 2015, there were no there any famous premieres, and only in the spring after the fair MWC 2015 in Barcelona for sale will be getting new phones with preinstalled lollipop on board. Then maybe something finally move on the issue of fragmentation.
strengthens its position as one and a half KitKat event, which marked the penultimate number on Android version 4.4. This month, he made a score of 39.7 per cent., Which is about 0.6 percentage points. more than a month ago. Jelly Bean’ów shares, or Android 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 have fallen from 46 per cent globally. to 43.5 per cent. It is also less users Ice Cream Sandwich (6.4 percent. In relation to 6.7 percent.) And gingerbread (7.4 percent. Compared to 7.8 percent. A month ago).
There’s no denying that the situation is hopeless.
Google can divide and triple, but it is not able to provide the new software to end users. Everything should be open system, the possibility of far-reaching modifications of the code by manufacturers and operators, and a huge number of devices available on the market.
In addition to this for occasional problems with drivers and low profitability of preparing an update for the less popular models of smartphones and manufacturers by manufacturers get one and not another picture. Moreover, the fragmentation problem is well illustrated by the graph, which can be found in the English edition of Wikipedia.
The defenders Android can of course mention at this point that Google introduced through the back door to the new features of equipment by keeping it updated Google Play Services. For the majority of applications detached from the system and are available as an update in the store the same application software called Google Play.
This is all true, but is it the Android 5.0 Lollipop was not to be so. game changer because of the modern system interface style Material Design and remodeled notification system? Does not look like access to one and the other is still only 16 per 1,000 people …
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