Summary:The latest Android Lollipop is out, but almost no one is using it

  • 8 January 2015
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Summary: The latest Google Play Store operating systems results are in and after six weeks out Lollipop hasn't even reached 0.1 percent of users yet.
 
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | January 8, 2015
 
Android 5.0 Lollipop has had its troubles. First, it stumbled out of the gate. It was briefly available over-the-air (OTA) for Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (both first and second generation), and Nexus 10 in early November, but then Google pulled the upgrade for two weeks. Today, almost two months after the re-release on Google Nexus 5, 10, and Nexus 7 Wi-Fi devices, as well as Moto X and G phones, Lollipop still has only a handful of users, never mind a mass audience.
 


 
No, you're not mis-reading the graphic. Six weeks after Android 5.0.x Lollipop was released, almost no one is running it. Google According to Google's latest Google Play Store results for early January 2015, less than 0.1 percent of all Android devices were using Lollipop. Ouch! By comparison, the last major Android release 4.4, KitKat, reached 1.1 percent of its audience in its first month out.
 
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No surprise there considering how few devices it's been pushed to. 
 
-Dan

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