Google needs to put its foot down and somehow say “you only get a license for Android N if you guarantee that all your customers will get it, and all its updates, for at least the next 2 years”Įxactly. I can’t even find it anymore, but weren’t all Android OEMs going to update their phones every 6 weeks (even if it would just be for 5.0 to 5.0.1)? Wasn’t there going to be a “3rd world/emerging markets continues update”? Google will blame the OEMS, the OEMS will blame the carriers, the carriers will blame the lawfully-required-testing and the result will be the same as with Android 6: A promise from everyone that from now on things will be quicker and better….but hardly any improvements in this aspect at all. I would also be interested to know how many Nexus devices are actually sold/in-use because inside the tech-bubble I hear about them but not outside of that bubble. Not just the current ones though, but of the entire installed base. I would be interested to see the statistics for Nexus devices. If the latest version of Android is the best (i.e., the least crappy) mobile operating system out there, but nobody is running it, is it really the best mobile operating system? Now that Android at 6.x is definitively better than iOS, it’s way, way, way, way beyond time for Google to drop everything they’re doing and somehow find a way to forcefully and resolutely address this deficit. ![]() Using an iPhone 6S since it came out has made me appreciate more and more just how much better Android is than iOS – but it’s all for naught if Google doesn’t get off its bum and fixes this long-running problem. ![]() 2011’s Ice Cream Sandwich still clings on to a stubborn 2 percent and the immortal Android Gingerbread (version 2.3!) accounts for 2.2 percent of Android smartphones. The rest of the field is dominated by 2014’s Android Lollipop at 35.6 percent, 2013’s KitKat at 32.5 percent, and 2012’s Jelly Bean at 20.1 percent. Android 6.0 Marshmallow is currently running on just 7.5 percent of active Android devices that have access to the Google Play Store. Two weeks shy of Google detailing the next big revision of Android at its annual developer conference, the current Android version is still struggling to make its way out to devices.
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