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Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-doesn't-like-Oreos dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by ese002 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:46PM

    by ese002 (5306) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:46PM (#609453)

    Yes, for the first three years.
    After three years, they will upgrade your device if they think it is NOT capable, but if they think it will result in a new sale of another phone.

    The case that I know of that is iPhone 4S. The rest abandon phones that are perfectly capable of running newer releases. None of the Android vendors reach three years of upgrades. Not even Google.

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