Let’s Hope It Doesn’t Melt In the Interim ⇥
Élyse Betters:
Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is making the biggest amount of noise with these latest results. Ice Cream Sandwich devices -only the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S for now- account for just .6-percent of the share of all of the devices that have called the Android market in the last two weeks.
Six out of every thousand devices are on Ice Cream Sandwich, which Betters notes launched on October 19. In over two months, just 0.6% of devices are running the new OS.
Hard to pick the most ridiculous element of these updated numbers.
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Is it that of the remaining 99.4%, only 55% are upgraded to Gingerbread (2.3), which came out over a year ago?
A little over half of Android phones are running the next most recent OS that they can. By the way, the chart does include Honeycomb devices, which are only tablets. Siegler?
Is it that only 3.3% are using Honeycomb (3.0), which means that all those highly-touted tablets last year are clearly huge flops?
Google said in November that they’ve activated 200 million devices, of which 3.3% is equal to 6.6 million tablets. For comparison, between October and December 2010, Apple sold over 7.3 million iPads.
My unlocked GSM Nexus S has not received the ICS update, and Google hasn’t said anything since they “paused” rolling out the updates.
His Google Nexus phone. The line of devices that ensures a pure Google experience, and which are the first to receive software updates, according to Google themselves.
Heise’s post links to a Verge post from December 20, where it’s noted that the Ice Cream Sandwich is being rolled out in batches and then paused. It’s good that Google is being cautious in order to prevent a Mango-esque problem.
Once again, this shows the benefits of controlling the platform.