Distributiecijfers december 2016: Android 4.4 kit kat from the throne – Androidworld

Each month, Google announced the Android versions are actively used. At the beginning of december 2016, we can see that Android 4.4 kit kat is no longer the biggest Android version is: Android 6.0 Marshmallow is on the rise.

Distributiecijfers december 2016

Google does every month interesting statistics about Android to the outside. It comes to the so-called distributiecijfers that contain information about active Android devices and if Google is talking about ‘active’ then it goes to smartphones and tablets in the past 7 days, the Google Play Store visited.

Yesterday was the latest version of Android, Android 7.1.1 Nougat, officially by Google, released. Last month we saw that the first version of Android Nougat, Android 7.0, for the first time in the statistics occurred. Meanwhile, the percentage of users with Nougat increased to 0.4%.

The biggest Android version is starting this month with a share of 26.3% Android 6.0 Marshmallow, even though the two Lollipop-versions (Android 5.0, and 5.1) are good together for the most part of the users (34%) The increase of the percentage of Marshmallow-users, combined with a decrease of the percentage of kit kat users ensures that the more than three year old Android version 4.4 kit kat to the throne being beaten.

the Rise of Nougat

The “rise” of Android 7.0 and 7.1 has now begun, and several major manufacturers have begun to update their devices to Android Nougat. Despite the fact that Google manufacturers incentive to make updates faster, it take a long time before the majority of the (active) devices on a released version of Android is running.

That Android 4.4 kit kat for so long has sustained as the biggest Android version also comes because it is a ‘special’ version of Android. In that respect, it seems kit kat a lot on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which in 2010 was released and still 1.2% of the active Android devices are running. These two Android versions were for a relatively major update of Android, so many devices unable to update to the next Android version got. When Android 2.3 was Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as a major update with many interface changes and adjustments under the hood and Android 4.4 is the update to Android 5.0 Lollipop a good with once again a large number of changes in terms of interface and the system.

Between Android 5.1 and Android 6.0 sit relatively less changes, which can mean a faster decrease of the number of active devices running on Lollipop.

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