We all know that new versions of Android have great difficulty asserting themselves in the market. This is due to Google’s operating system update policy, which assigns this responsibility to brands.
Now, Google has decided to reveal the Android market adoption figures. A table reveals that Android 10 is still the most widely used software version in the world, despite its release in 2019.
Android 10 is still the most used version around the world
Since 2018, Google has stopped regularly reporting Android adoption figures in the smartphone market. This data disappeared from the official website of the American and is effective in Android Studio, available only for programmers.
Google recently decided to make the latest table public and the data attests that there is still a lot to do in the field of updates. This is because, towards the end of 2021, Android 10 is still the dominant version.
Indeed, Android 10 represents 26.5% of all active Android smartphones in the world. We are talking about a version officially launched in the second half of 2019 and it continues to dominate the market two years later.
In second place is Android 11 with an established market share in the 24.2%. Figures that show that the update acceleration strategy developed by Google is yielding some results, but still far from desirable.
Android 12 is not even part of this table
At a time when users are already waiting for the availability of Android 12, it is with sadness that we inform you that this version is not even part of this table. In other words, the new version of Google’s operating system is still insignificant in the world of mobile devices.
This reveals that even the Android 4 Jelly Bean, launched in the distant 2012, has more expression in the market than the Android 12 launched a few weeks ago. The first can be seen in 6% of active Android smartphones in the world.
These numbers show that there is still a long way to go before Android can come close to iOS in terms of updating its equipment. Possibly this approach will never happen, due to the open source nature of Android, but the disparity does exist and should be mentioned.