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Meanwhile many phones (especially vendor-locked ones like the Droid Turbo...) are still stuck on Lollipop.

by msoucy 10y ago

coredog64 10y ago
Lollipop? I wish! My Samsung tablet is stuck at KitKat unless I'm willing to try a Cyanogenmod nightly.
- arvinsim 10y ago
  I wish I didn't update my Nexus 7 2012 to Lollipop. Lollipop made it crawl compared to Kitkat.
  - robocat 10y ago
    Apparently this is due to a hardware issue with the Flash memory (not that that excuses the slow performance!).
  - opayen 10y ago
    You can still go back to Kitkat by resetting it (I did and the performance difference is astonishing).
igravious 10y ago
According† to https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html The recent Marshmallow has 15.2% market share Lollipop (14.1% + 21.4%) = 35.5% (the greatest share) KitKat has 29.2% (the next greatest share) Jelly Bean† still has (6.0% + 8.3% + 2.4%) = 16.7% Earlier than Jelly Bean is 3.4% of the total share. Jelly Bean was first unveiled in June 2012, four years ago. I think given the development model: large ecosystem of hardware companies, alternative software stacks like Kindle and Cyanogen, a good chunk of it being open-source; given all that I'll forgive Google that we all can't upgrade to Nougat on the day of its release. As a techie you have to know by now that if you want an up to date version of Android you ought to get a Nexus or a brand which has guaranteed frequent into the future updates. There's not much point in claiming that you're "stuck" at this point. † Data collected during a 7-day period ending on August 1, 2016.
- kbd 10y ago
  Thanks for the stats! > As a techie you have to know by now that if you want an up to date version of Android you ought to get a Nexus... Except I did that and it looks like my Nexus 7 is no longer getting OS updates, while my older iPhone 5 is still chugging on the latest OS and afaik will get iOS 10 soon. This will definitely dissuade me from buying Android in the future.
- andrewmlevy 10y ago
  We decided to build our own dashboard since Google's is updated only about once a month. It also doesn't include data from non Google Play devices: https://data.apteligent.com/android/ https://data.apteligent.com/android/
- robocat 10y ago
  > As a techie you have to know by now that if you want an up to date version of Android you ought to get a Nexus Not true. I have bought: Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nexus 5. Two of those were as expensive as iOS devices. None of them can get the N update (yes I could use Cyanogenmod but I prefer production versions of software for testing). We have our own app for Android phones and it is a pain to test (simulating touch with a mouse is not good). Other Android devices purchased for testing are no better... Meanwhile the work iPhone 4 made it to iOS 7, the iPad 2 made it as far as iOS 9, and our other test devices are still getting updates to iOS 10. I feel that Nexus devices stop getting updates quickly. The non-nexus Androids are way worse. Don't buy an Android if you want a device to stay secure more than say two years (coming from somebody who loves Android!).

Meanwhile many phones (especially vendor-locked ones like the Droid Turbo...) are still stuck on Lollipop.

by msoucy 10y ago

Meanwhile many phones (especially vendor-locked ones like the Droid Turbo...) are still stuck on Lollipop.

coredog64 10y ago

Lollipop? I wish! My Samsung tablet is stuck at KitKat unless I'm willing to try a Cyanogenmod nightly.

arvinsim 10y ago
I wish I didn't update my Nexus 7 2012 to Lollipop. Lollipop made it crawl compared to Kitkat.
- robocat 10y ago
  Apparently this is due to a hardware issue with the Flash memory (not that that excuses the slow performance!).
- opayen 10y ago
  You can still go back to Kitkat by resetting it (I did and the performance difference is astonishing).

igravious 10y ago

According† to https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html The recent Marshmallow has 15.2% market share Lollipop (14.1% + 21.4%) = 35.5% (the greatest share) KitKat has 29.2% (the next greatest share) Jelly Bean† still has (6.0% + 8.3% + 2.4%) = 16.7% Earlier than Jelly Bean is 3.4% of the total share. Jelly Bean was first unveiled in June 2012, four years ago. I think given the development model: large ecosystem of hardware companies, alternative software stacks like Kindle and Cyanogen, a good chunk of it being open-source; given all that I'll forgive Google that we all can't upgrade to Nougat on the day of its release. As a techie you have to know by now that if you want an up to date version of Android you ought to get a Nexus or a brand which has guaranteed frequent into the future updates. There's not much point in claiming that you're "stuck" at this point. † Data collected during a 7-day period ending on August 1, 2016.

kbd 10y ago
Thanks for the stats! > As a techie you have to know by now that if you want an up to date version of Android you ought to get a Nexus... Except I did that and it looks like my Nexus 7 is no longer getting OS updates, while my older iPhone 5 is still chugging on the latest OS and afaik will get iOS 10 soon. This will definitely dissuade me from buying Android in the future.
andrewmlevy 10y ago
We decided to build our own dashboard since Google's is updated only about once a month. It also doesn't include data from non Google Play devices: https://data.apteligent.com/android/ https://data.apteligent.com/android/
robocat 10y ago
> As a techie you have to know by now that if you want an up to date version of Android you ought to get a Nexus Not true. I have bought: Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nexus 5. Two of those were as expensive as iOS devices. None of them can get the N update (yes I could use Cyanogenmod but I prefer production versions of software for testing). We have our own app for Android phones and it is a pain to test (simulating touch with a mouse is not good). Other Android devices purchased for testing are no better... Meanwhile the work iPhone 4 made it to iOS 7, the iPad 2 made it as far as iOS 9, and our other test devices are still getting updates to iOS 10. I feel that Nexus devices stop getting updates quickly. The non-nexus Androids are way worse. Don't buy an Android if you want a device to stay secure more than say two years (coming from somebody who loves Android!).