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Android Oreo was released on August 21. Adoption is at 0.5% (among devices that accessed the Play Store in early December):
Yesterday, Google released some fresh platform data explaining how many devices are running each version. Android 8.0, as you might expect, is struggling with a measly 0.5 percent share. Google's latest Pixel phones run the software, but otherwise it's hard to come by. There are some outliers, of course — the quietly impressive HTC U11, for instance — but most are still shipping with a variant of Android Nougat. Which is, well, hardly ideal for Google.
Android 7.0 and 7.1 have a combined share of 23.3 percent. Respectable, but still behind 6.0 Marshmallow (29.7 percent) and Android Lollipop (26.3 percent).
Here's an article about changes in Android 8.1.
Also at 9to5Google and Wccftech.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:56PM (3 children)
I've got a nearly 2 year old Nexus 6P from Google. It got Oreo in September. I got the Dec 5 Security Patch a few days ago (I think on Dec 8). Phone says now running 8.1.0. Clicking on the 8.1.0 several times gives a picture of an Oreo.
This is the reason I think I will probably only buy phones directly from Google. First in line for updates. No bloatware. And especially: No FaceBook. No Beats. No crap preinstalled. (Are you listening Samsung?)
Google promised OS updates through at least September 2017, and I got Oreo that month.
Google has promised Security Updates until at least September 2018.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:13PM (1 child)
It isn't just Samsung.
The networks and re-sellers load phones with everything from splash screens, recharge apps, adware, trackers, etc etc.
My phone had three music players and three music streaming apps, as well as four different games (log on to play on central server) apps.
I am amazed there was room for it to make calls.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:04PM
My last Samsung phone came with 2 preinstalled Web Browsers. Then I added FireFox which is what I wanted for certain sites.
It also came with a crap ton of apps that I was never going to use ever. And then they kept adding more over time. Apps that I neither wanted nor asked for.
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(Score: 1) by Crash on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:05PM
Sure sounds good in theory, but with the Nexus brand currently abandoned, and the Moto X4 somewhat of a wet dog -- are the Pixel phones (no aux, no microSD) really worth more $$ than a laptop?