Updated Android version numbers show KitKat gaining significant ground

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Despite Apple trying their hardest to ridicule Android?s adoption rate when it comes to new versions of Android, Google has updated their platform distribution numbers for the seven-day period ending June 4th, 2014. The numbers are quite typical, with Jelly Bean still commanding a lead of 58.4%.

 

KitKat did see a decent rise this month, though, as it?s sitting at 13.6%. This is compared to 5.3% just two months ago which is progress Google can be proud of. Of course, this (thankfully) comes at the expense of the demise of Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, which are at 14.9% and 12.3%, respectively.

 

 

It?s unfortunate that so many people have to be stuck on older versions of Android, but the reality is that there are tons of folks out there who buy phones and can?t afford to upgrade them every year. Those phones eventually hit a road block in terms of carrier and OEM support, and they?re pretty much stuck there until they do something about it.

 

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http://phandroid.com/2014/06/05/android-platform-numbers-june-2014/

 

OS adoption is much better than a year or two ago, but can be better.  Hopefully with the Silver program and more vanilla, or near vanilla build, things will continue to get better.  I am all for OEMs putting their own flavor on the OS, but not if it causes problems...coughTWcough