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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @01:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @01:28AM (#610028)

    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]