From DailyTech: The slow pace of updates to bring users to the latest and greatest version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android -- the world's most used mobile operating system -- is a well documented and much discussed problem. The slower adoption cycle ultimately stems from the fact that Google does not push new versions of Android directly to customers, but rather waits for device OEMs and carriers to take up its generalized update packages and roll them out to end users.
Lollipop (Android 5.0 and 5.1) is no exception.
Soft launched in October, upgrade deliverables were available to OEMs and carriers since November. That makes the OS technically half a year (six months) old. Yet, as Neowin notes, Google's own version tracker for developers pegs Lollipop adoption at only 9.7 percent.
Roughly two in five (39.8 percent) of the more than 1 billion Android device users are on devices powered by some version of Android KitKat (4.4). KitKat remains the most widely adopted distribution. Perhaps more notable, while less than 1 in 10 Androids run Lollipop, roughly 1 in 3 (33.7 percent) run some build of Android Jelly Bean builds (4.1 or 4.2). Android Jelly Bean 4.2 was released two and a half years ago, so it's somewhat surprising to see how long it's lingering.
On the other hand Android Froyo (2.2) (0.3 percent), Gingerbread (2.3) (5.7 percent), and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) (5.3 percent) -- once widely used builds -- appear to be fading fast (well, fast by Android standards).
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