Fragmentation is one of the biggest problems that face currently the most popular mobile system in the world. A multitude of various Android versions that are present on the market, is a real challenge for developers. Creating applications for the system of Google, they have to optimize them in such a way that they operate correctly on both an aging Android Jelly Bean, as well as the latest Marshmallow.
Fragmentation is also a threat to users and the security of their devices. As recently as yesterday, we wrote about malicious software that gives hackers an almost unlimited access to the infected smartphone or tablet with the Google OS-I .. This issue affects “only” older versions of Android (version 4.4 Kitkat inclusive). The problem is that we are talking up to 500 million devices, which users – for different reasons – can not count on a system update.
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However, the latest statistics published by Google show that the issue of Android fragmentation is changing little. It turns out that Android Lollipop need up to 16 months to ensure a reputation as the most popular operating system of Google. With this OS is currently used by 36.1 percent. Android users. In second place is even older KitKat (34.3 percent)., And third place, with a score of 22.3 per cent., Is Jelly Bean, which had its premiere in July 2012.
As against this background falls Marshmallow latest five months after the debut? Very poor. The statistics of the Mountain View that its market share is currently 2.3 percent. The same result can boast a version of Ice Cream Sandwich, which debuted as the ideal Christmas present was the Samsung Galaxy S II.
As you can see, Google still has a serious problem of fragmentation of Android and manufacturers smartphones do not hurry especially the adaptation of the latest version of the system.
the share of Android Marshmallow market is rudimentary. Meanwhile, the company of Mountain View already during the May conference I / O plans to announce the next version of its OS …
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