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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 looorg on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:52PM (3 children)
My problem isnt that the device updated. My problem is the device did it without asking me if I wanted to download 1GB of data. It would have been nice if it had asked and not just started doing it when the phone was just charging its battery. Clearly it failed a bit since there was a data-limit on the carriers phone plan. That was my issue with it. I dont consider that to be a matter of ignorance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @01:14AM
...and on top of that it's AN OS UPDATE--FROM THE VENDOR'S OWN SITE.
No exemption for that bandwidth??
Corporations these days just plain suck.
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I'm liking how our guys are coming up with foil pouch|unplugged microwave|airplane mode solutions.
Too bad you didn't realize beforehand that you were gonna get screwed.
Man, a dude's gotta stay on top of EVERYTHING these days--or take it in the slats.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday December 14 2017, @01:59PM (1 child)
This "negligence in seller's favor", a default setting that just happens to cost you more money, is everywhere. Every time I've had to get a new phone or upgrade the OS, settings that I turned off to save money somehow are turned back on, and I didn't learn of it until the bill came. You can fight with the provider and demand that they return the money, and they might, but that won't stop them from trying it again and again. Doesn't help to change providers, they all do it. Maybe slapping them hard with class action lawsuits would deter them.
Microsoft's forced upgrading to Windows 10 pushed too far. Provoked a backlash. Sadly, that backlash wasn't big enough to inspire fundamental change. Microsoft backed off a little and waited it out, enough to smooth things over, then went right back to trying it again,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @01:28AM
Sadly, that backlash wasn't big enough to inspire fundamental change
Businesses that have allowed themselves to be locked into MICROS~1 technologies will likely just bend over and continue to take it.
The gov't of Virginia Beach, Virginia is historically 1 such entity.
What's So Bad About Microsoft? - Kein Mitleid Für MicroSoft (No Pity For MicroSoft) [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [kmfms.com]
More of these folks should be told about Ernie Ball, Inc. and how, after a raid by the Business Software Alliance (a M$ proxy), [freerepublic.com] that company made the break via FOSS.
Ernie Ball Rockin' without Microsoft [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [active-technologies.com]
(The company wasn't using those copies of the goddamned proprietary software; it was just on hand-me-down machines from engineering that weren't reimaged before being given to secretaries.)
...and I'm pretty sure that anybody with a nerd for a friend now knows that you can test-drive $0-cost Linux without installing it.
...and that Linux can be installed alongside an already-installed OS until MICROS~1's junk completely gets up their noses.
With just a bit of tryout, they will also likely find that Linux will accomplish all the tasks they typically do--out of the box.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]