Google has once again updated its Android Platform Versions report and the latest version of Android remains a no-show. This means that more than two months after being unveiled, Android 5.0 Lollipop’s overall share of the Android pie remains below 0.1 percent. The year-old previous version, Andoid 4.4 KitKat, showed another healthy gain and now accounts for nearly 40 percent […]
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Android 5.0 Lollipop still missing on Android Platform Versions report
Google today published the latest edition of its Android Platform Versions report. While Android 4.4 KitKat has now made its way onto more than a third of Android devices, the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system has yet to crack the charts. While Google has begun to ship its latest Nexus devices preloaded with Android 5.0 Lollipop and pushed […]
Android 4.4 KitKat cracks 30% mark on day that Android 5.0 Lollipop launches
After missing in action in October, Google today updated its Android Platform Versions report. Published on the same day that Android 5.0 Lollipop is out with the HTC-built Google Nexus 9, it shows that Android 4.4 KitKat is now on nearly a third of all Android devices. Since Google last published numbers in early September, KitKat has increased its share of the […]
Don’t rule out Android Wear coming to iOS
The relationship between Apple and Google is not the friendliest out there but that has not prevented the latter from making a number of services and apps available to iOS users. Currently missing from that list is the relatively new Android Wear but that could change at some point in the future. In an interview with Huffington Post UK, Android […]
Android 4.4 KitKat on almost 25% of Android devices
Google has updated its Google Android Platform Versions report once more. Following on the trend we’ve seen in recent months, Android 4.4.x KitKat continues to make progress and is now on 24.5% of all Android devices as older versions like Android Jelly Bean (4.1.x to 4.3), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3 to 4.0.4) and Gingerbread (2.3.3 to 2.3.7) all showed signs […]
IDC: 300 million smartphones shipped in Q2 2014
The worldwide smartphone market showed no signs of slowing down in the first half of the year. Following strong numbers in Q1, 301.3 million smartphones shipped in Q2 2014 according to market research firm IDC. This is up 25.3% from the 240.5 million shipped the same quarter a year ago. Echoing similar findings by Strategy Analytics earlier this month, the IDC reports […]
Android 4.4 KitKat now on more than 20% of Android devices
The latest edition of the Google Android Platform Versions report is now available. Recent trends continued in the latest report period which ended today. KitKat adoption continues to climb as its predecessor Jelly Bean continued its steady decline. But there was some drama as well: The aging Gingerbread release showed that it’s not quite ready to exit the stage gracefully. KitKat jumped another […]
Android KitKat jumps to 18% in latest Android platform versions data
What a difference a month can make. Google today published the latest edition of the Google Android Platform Versions report and Android KitKat has jumped from 13.6% to 17.9%. As impressive as the jump is, there is even better news. KitKat is finally on more devices than the aging Gingerbread release which now stands at 13.5%. Not only are new […]