a new measurement of developer.android.com it appears that more than a quarter of all active Android-users have the version 4.4 (kit kat) Android. Android 7.0 (Nougat) is a poor 0.3 percent used and version 7.1 by less than 0.1%.
With all the security loopholes, which in recent years have been discovered, you would think that the average smartphone-manufacturer update policies would tighten up, but nothing is less true and the promises to devices update more frequently and longer to support but not.
We wrote yesterday about the various features that Android could take over Google’s Pixel, and hope that the modular update of Pixel very quickly will find it’s way to Android. But even if that is the case, it will still take years before the average user is up to date.
Even at Cyanogenmod start the first hairline cracks to arise. This organization is working on custom roms for various Android smartphones (users must have this mostly self-flashing) and “backport” security updates to older versions of Android (usually up to kit kat). But since there are also a lot of redundancies, a lot of older roms will no longer be maintained with all its consequences.
And how about your Android devices?
What version of Android turn you?
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