Google recently released its newest mobile operating system into the world. Android 5.0 Lollipop gives Android devices a heavy UI update while increasing the software's connectivity and security, among other changes. This update doesn't do anything, though, if users don't download it, and it looks like Android users aren't exactly rushing to get this latest update.
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Android offers its app developers a wide range of tools to help them in their work, one of which is Android version usage stats. To give developers a good idea about which operating systems they should include support for, Google provides information on the percentage of phones running each Android version that visit Google Play over the course of seven days, and the most recent information was published yesterday. According to the latest data, devices running Android 5.0 Lollipop don't even make up 0.1 percent of Google Play visits.
In the published graph, which you can find below, you can see that the majority of Android users haven't even updated to last year's Android 4.4 KitKat, let alone Lollipop. Almost half of the Android population still runs a form of Android Jelly Bean, which spanned versions 4.1 to 4.3, while KitKat is installed on about a third of Android devices. Lollipop hasn't even shown up on the graph yet, meaning it accounts for less than one out of every thousand Google Play visits.
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There are plenty of explanations for this, primarily revolving around how Android devices get updates. The only devices that automatically come with Lollipop installed are the new Nexus 9 and Nexus 6, with the older of the two, the Nexus 9, being only a month old. More importantly, though, most Android devices can't update their operating system right when Google releases a new version. Unless they own a Nexus device, Android owners need to wait for their phone's manufacturer (Samsung, HTC, etc.) to get the update from Google and then port it themselves to their devices, a process that can take months.
Once the update starts rolling out to more phones, you can expect Lollipop usage to start going up.
(Thanks, Engadget)
