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  • well this also kills the argument about android phones not lasting that long, if so with newer phones coming out with 4.4, 5.0 the numbers should have been higher considering a new 6.0 is about to be release.

  • I want to see what the percentage of Nexus Phones are running a version of the OS. That would give a good example of what would happen if Google could control the rollout a la Apple.

  • WORK AT HOME::Get $97/HOUR…I just purchased themselves a McLaren F1 when I got my check for $19993 this past 4 weeks and just over 17 thousand lass month . this is really the nicest-work Ive had . I began this 10-months ago and straight away started making more than $97… p/h .learn the facts here now
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  • I think come the next couple of years, Google should really just force oems to push an update to most of their devices as Android N,O,P etc whichever year it’s on. Even if they aren’t necessarily supported. The update doesn’t have to house any features of the new OS, it can just be passed off as a “bug fixer”. I think it will refresh this pie chart and bring it back to square one

    I reread the paragraph i just wrote above….Yeah that’s never happening

  • The iPhone 4s and the iPad 2 got iOS 9, yet much much much newer android devices aren’t on the latest, year old, major version of Android.

  • I will say it again. I know Google would catch hell for it but I wish they would send out a signal that would brick anything under KitKat.

    • Or don’t allow oems to included google apps on their devices if they don’t have the latest android os.

    • Or Google should force OEM’s to get rid of skins, make all the Skinned Features into apps so all phones run the same android. Either way the phone still has the same features, but in app form. Then all phones get updated from Google in a timely fashion, and OEM’s save money on updates too

      • I would love to see Google force manufacturers with devices that use Google Play Services at launch to unlock the devices for community use when they go EOL. If the manufacturer abandons it, it should become public domain.

        I know it would never happen, but it would be nice in an ideal world.

    • That would kill my OG Droid that I am using as an alarm clock. Why kill something that people are using?

  • Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever buy a carrier phone. #Thunderbolt #Droidturbo

  • You should post a graph showing the trend of each OS release over the past 1-2 years

  • Here’s an idea quit having a major update every year. How about waiting 18 months at least? What happens after 2028 when Google runs out of the alphabet?

  • And problem continues to persist. Fragmentation at its finest. Is Google even trying anymore?

    • what is Google supposed to do about it? It doesn’t make most of the devices running Android.

      • It’s their operating system. Simply throwing up their hands and saying it’s the OEMs or carrier isn’t going to work.

      • I have seen OEMs releasing devices with older Android version months after Google releases the latest version.

    • Even though this is marked as Octobers chart it more represents the state of Android in September….

    • What would be the point. We already know what Nexus devices got left where. I guess it would just be to see what Nexus devices are still out in the wild being used?

      • I guess more to show updating phones can be done. Although Nexus devices to get to keep getting updates terribly long. Not like an iOS device.

        • Well, it doesn’t happen often but the 2012 Nexus 7 even made it to lollipop which flies in the face of the then conventional 18 month update window when it was launched. The difference in Android and iOS being that when a devices is updated on Android it still keeps most of the current features and well, using the 2012 Nexus 7 as an example, it ran perfectly smooth up until the lollipop update while retaining most of the features of newer devices….

          • I think the 18 month rule was created solely for the purpose of dropping the Galaxy Nexus. That is true though about all devices getting the same features. There is no reason why Siri was a 4S and up only feature, or their new ‘motion pictures’.

          • I do believe that the whole 18 month update window (now 24 Month) was in effect long before the Galaxy Nexus. There were soo many problems with the Galaxy Nexus that I’d rather not call it a Nexus at all…..

          • Anyone on Verizon called it a Nexus. It was the only thing we had. Luckily Aio/Cricket came along and gave me the coverage to buy the Nexus 5.

          • That’s because it was the closest thing that VZW users had ever had to a Nexus. But Verizon managed to make a hot mess out of that by delaying updates for their “certification”… The Nexus 6 has been the best Nexus on Verizon so far to date. I still don’t have high hopes for people that are going to try to use the N6P and N5X on VZW’s network…

          • Agreed. We did have the OG Droid, which was basically a Nexus. Probably a better Nexus than the Galaxy Nexus, the Google Wallet situation still burns me up.

            With the 6p, I’ll be joining Project Fi.

          • Well even the situation with Droid branded devices has taken the usual VZW down hill after the first few Droid branded devices. Nowadays Droid brand means nothing more than any other device with the exception of higher battery capacities….

          • Not to mention the delay to release the G-Nexus….didn’t they release the device like a month or two after the GSM version was available?

          • Well that was a problem with the Nexus 6 also, VZW did not start selling the device until nearly 5 months after it was released. The difference this time around is that 1 Nexus device will function on all carriers, so a sim swap was all the Nexus 6 needed to get up and running……

          • I agree with you with the slow down of older iphones. The user sees the iphone slow down and goes out and buys a new iphone problem solved. Poor soul.

          • Apple doesn’t use TRIM, so of course they slow down over time.

            Remember Android phones without TRIM? Factory data resets were necessary every 8-12 months just to reset the NAND flash.

  • I hope with more carriers (hopefully??) starting to sell direct that it improves this a bit. Maybe wishful thinking though

  • Wow, these numbers are terrible. In a year, Lollipop didn’t even reach a quarter of devices. Nearly half of devices are running 2+ year old firmware. It’s been discussed ad nauseum, but despite the carrier complications Google has got to put more weight behind this issue.

      • Agreed. While carriers do slow the update process a majority of the hold up for devices falls on OEMs….

      • If you think carriers aren’t slowing down the process, you’re either uninformed or purposefully ignorant. Yes, OEMs are part of the problem – no one said they weren’t. But of the two, carriers have historically been worse.

      • That’s why the unlocked models get updates much faster than most carrier branded phones, right? Just look at the Moto X 2014 and Xperia Z3v, both on carriers have no plans for 6.0 while the unlocked versions do.

        • Because they don’t want to bother with them because a few minutes of work is too much for them

    • 23.5% of 1.4 Billion Android devices is pretty damn good. That’s ~329 MILLION devices on Lollipop. That’s almost the entire active install base of iOS

      • Except this study doesn’t include every Android device shipped in the world, which is what your number references. It only includes ACTIVE devices, and then only those that were active during “a 7 day period ending October 5, 2015” according to the source. That number is much smaller, and is much more likely to skew in favor of devices running the higher frameworks.

        • Correct, of which when Google announced that 1.4B number, they also said 1B of those were actively on the Play Store, so if anything, 1B is the number to go by.

          So that’s 235 million devices on Lollipop, estimated.

        • Nobody said anything about shipped. Google’s figures are based on 30 day active users that access the play store. Currently there are 1.4 Billion of which worldwide.

      • Yes I agree.

        I really hate it when people try to compare software updates with Android vs iOS for the simple fact that Apple only uses its own hardware so naturally the updates are going to be rolled out faster. This is not even a fair comparison these two platforms work completely differently and I’m getting so sick in tired of people trying to tear down the greatness of the Android operating system on all things Android website.

        Don’t let the trolls of this website get you down.

        • WORK AT HOME::Get $97/HOUR…I just purchased themselves a McLaren F1 when I got my check for $19993 this past 4 weeks and just over 17 thousand lass month . this is really the nicest-work Ive had . I began this 10-months ago and straight away started making more than $97… p/h .learn the facts here now
          jv.
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          • jokes aside, 329 million is an ecosystem within itself. so the numbers are entirely relevant.

          • and yet they’re all running the same version of Google Play Services. Google was smart to retain version control over this component of the OS.

          • They only did that because it feeds their ad revenue machine. Google play services gives google all the info it needs for it’s advertising clients. They didn’t do that help out its users.

      • Plus we have to remember a lot of phones in the US and foreign markets have throw away phones, temporary, or burner phones that run android and will never see updates. Can’t imagine how many cheap throw away/ temporary phones are made

      • “That’s almost the entire active install base of iOS”

        The other way to look at it is that those android devices on 2yr+ old os is over 1 billion or 5x the iOS installed base.

        You call that good, jimmy?

    • I’m sure that the VZW Moto X’s being 2 years old probably had a negligible impact on the numbers. A bigger impact would have been had from people upgrading from the OG Moto X to a new device…

    • Not mine, I am still happily running 4.4.4 and I have no intention of upgrading it until I get a new phone and skip straight to M.

        • Because my phone is rooted and Xposed and works exactly as I want it to and I see absolutely nothing in L that makes me want to risk messing that up.

          • you don’t want the Stagefirght security patch? I would think that that would be a big reason to update…

          • I am not at all concerned about Stagefright. It is the most overblown security issue in history. Between having MMS loading disabled (which I had disable before it ever came out) and ASLR pretty much preventing anything worse than a crash I am not too worried until some actual documented attacks start showing up. I plan to get a new Nexus phone before next year anyway.

          • I, myself, thought that the lollipop update ran fairly well on the OG Moto X. Though it took long enough for them (Motorola and VZW) to push it to the Moto X. The one thing that got me was even after the Lollipop update there was still no Advanced Calling 1.0 for the OG Moto X even though its Droid siblings, that are still running 4.4.4 Kitkat, have it…

          • So a vulnerability that affects pretty much every Android device in existence is overblown? Excuse me while I laugh in the corner. Lol!

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