From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) was the subject of some critical reports in September when at a week after the release of iOS 8, only 46 percent of iPhone users worldwide had upgraded. The cause for concern, the reasoning went, was that iOS 8 adoption was tracking slower than iOS 7 adoption.
But if you think 46 percent of users being on Apple's latest platform a week after its launch is a troubling sign, then Google Inc. (GOOG) has a whopper of a statistic for you.
A full month after the launch Android 5.0 "Lollipop" less than 0.1 percent of Android users are on the latest and greatest platform, according to Google's own Android developer tracking. These latest numbers come from the Nov. 25 through Dec. 1 window and they don't paint a very pretty picture in terms of adoption pace for "Lollipop".
The root of the problem is slow releases by OEMs and carriers worldwide. Globally roughly one in every two users use some sort of Android 4.1/4.2/4.3 "Jelly Bean" release (Android 4.1 debuted in June 2012). Roughly 1 in 3 are running Android 4.4 "KitKat" which launched last October. The "KitKat" usage marked a major uptick since January when only 1.4 percent of devices were running it.
While Google is at last seeing some success of moving users of very old versions of Android -- including Android 2.2 "Froyo" and Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" -- its demands that OEMs quicken the pace of adoption or face service blacklisting seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
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