began another month, so Google again has provided statistics on the adoption of the latest version of its mobile operating system Android. Like a month ago, the percentage of KitKat in the market calculated on the basis of devices connecting to the store Google Play looks haggard. This bodes worse for the future of both users, developers and the whole platform.
Month in the month we looked at the pages of a Spider’s Web changes which affect the Google mobile platform, and these are usually purely cosmetic. Unfortunately, once again I do not have good news. Not only that, the pace of adoption is KitKat is really poor, it is even older – even several years – the distribution of the green robot does not want to go out of date.
twice more this KitKat still no reason for joy
Looking for new charts and tables compared to last month you would have cause for satisfaction. Android 4.4 KitKat available on the device from the Nexus line, Google Play Edition, and a select few of the top smartphones with overlays increased its market share more than doubled from 2.5% to 5.3%. In terms of volume, and this is perhaps sizable jump in a single month, but looking at the date of the KitKat presents itself is just … weak. Five percent in half a year, where for a month or two may appear completely new edition
impossible not to compare this result to the chart to the archaic Gingerbread, which today still controls 17.8 percent market, where we observe here a decrease of only 1.2 percentage points relative to March. From KitKatów much more is too icy sandwiches, as part of 2.5-year-old Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now 14.3 percent, 0.9 percentage point less than the month before. So much good that Android 2.2 Froyo and Honeycomb 3.2 is just 1.1 percent, respectively, and 0.1 percent of devices.
jellies eat themselves
At the same time interesting thing you can see on the chart dedicated for Android Jelly Bean. Google applied here quite a good tactic, and three subsequent editions of Android released throughout the year named the same code name that distinguishes quickie – 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3. Interestingly, the oldest and the newest of the mini cups robots … lost interest. Today, individual Jelly Beany are respectively 34.4 percent, 18.1 percent and 8.9 percent of the market, where a month ago it was 35.3 percent, 17.1 percent and 9.6 percent.
It can therefore be reasonably assumed that the users rather than replace old Gingerbready a new KitKaty buy older and cheaper equipment from the second edition of Jelly Bean and KitKat responsible for the increase in users of high-end phones that is slowly replaced by the update, such as tops Samsung Galaxy Xperia line Z and HTC One last year. KitKat have also already installed by default, the latest flagship of this year.
Why is not the problem …
I realize that Android fragmentation is no longer such a problem as it used to. Google cleverly moved most of the major functions of the system to store the Google Play Store and sewn in the system Google Play Services. As a result, the company can send news not only to the holders of the latest KitKat, but also legacy systems. So far, everything is played well. News from KitKat is nothing essential to life
Let’s agree, the search numbers from Google Maps into the dialer and transparent notification bars and function keys is not nothing you could tear robes. Key updates Jelly Bean reach users that currently reigns in terms of percentage. The problem occurs at the point where Google will release a new Android 4.5 or 5.0, which – purely hypothetically – introduce a truly revolutionary change.
… and why it is a problem, however,
class=”c9″> are two scenarios: either the current model and fragmentation I cut the wings developers, who in the name of backward compatibility does not bring anything revolutionary, or one year from the launch of a new and potentially revolutionary Android no benefit. Yes, Nexuses are becoming better and more popular, but the charts listed above, it is clear that this is still a drop in the bucket. There is currently no chance of it becoming a trend to slower adoption stop.
Yes, Google may haunt manufacturers withdrawing a license if they will not deliver on the smartphone market with the latest soft but it still does not even come close to iOS and Android Windows Phone in terms of the pace of change, and yet still remain operators dorzucaj?cy your bloatware. Thus, Android users will benefit mainly from outdated firmware, and developers writing applications will still have to pay attention to older distributions.
I would be wrong.
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