KitKat after 6 Months

Android KitKat 

on less than 10% devices

Kitkat has not much steady growth in market and after it release from past 6 months, there are only 10% of device that have OS version of KitKat.  KitKat was release last October and currently it’s running on only 8.5% of Android devices according to Google’s most recent number.

Nexus 5

During last week of April the data was collected and data is overall based on Android devices running version 2.2 or higher. KitKat seems to grow but on a snail pace. As per reports in the month of January only 1.4% of Android devices were running KitKat.

Numbers in the above data shows Google is still striving for Android fragmentation.

Data till now

Also see: Samsung Galaxy S5 mini

In 2012 jelly bean was released, as of now there are 61% of Android devices that are running OS version of jelly bean.  Ginger bread more than 3 years old still exists in more then 15% of Android devices. Coming to competitor Apple has released IOS 7 in September 2013 and it has overall 80% device using it.

Apple pushes it user to make an update of OS irrespective of their device or carrier, where as Google updates are dependent on manufacturers, so user have to be dependent on the manufacturer for the version of Android. 

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