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March Android platform numbers have Jelly Bean up and Gingerbread down

0. phoneArena posted on 05 Mar 2013, 16:31

The Android platform numbers for March are out; and, as expected, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has continued to gain steam, while the reigning kind, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, continues to slide. And, overall the numbers are starting to turn towards Android 4.x, which is good considering that Android 5.0 is on the horizon...

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1. p5yb0rg (unregistered) posted on 05 Mar 2013, 16:52 7

Gotta give it up to Sammy and HTC for pushing out these updates promptly. If only the carriers could do the same.

2. rallyguy posted on 05 Mar 2013, 17:24 1

How can the numbers be out for March already? We are only 5 days into the month.

4. caustictoast posted on 05 Mar 2013, 18:15

It's not for March. It's actually for February but it's published at the beginning of March. The title isn't the best

3. Mxyzptlk posted on 05 Mar 2013, 17:40 1 10

The adoption rate is still much lower than it should be though.

5. jroc74 posted on 05 Mar 2013, 18:42 1

Looking at the source link, Froyo is small. Thats a good thing. It was good when it launched tho. Eclair and older is almost gone. Thats good news.

Devices with ICS installed is almost as big as GB. Thats also good news. Jelly Bean is fine...but there needs to be more phones on ICS.

Some of it is phones released with older Android versions too...low end, maybe mid range phones.

6. VZWuser76 posted on 05 Mar 2013, 19:57 3

It's quite a bit easier to update all your phones when the number of models can be counted on 2 hands, and you don't have carriers d**king around with your updates.

9. rusticguy posted on 05 Mar 2013, 22:46 1 1

And Gingerbread still keeps performing better than iOS6 :)

10. Berzerk000 posted on 06 Mar 2013, 00:00 1

I think the adoption rate is fine for how much diversity there is.

8. networkdood posted on 05 Mar 2013, 22:22 1

Better off going to XDA for updates..I have 4.2 running on my captivate

11. jsdechavez posted on 06 Mar 2013, 05:45

This could mean that either Google is going so fast with the major updates and the OEM's and carriers are too slow. Seriously, I think Google comes out with another major update even before the latest OS matures. That explains why update adoption is not good and that the OEM's and carriers are playing catch up.

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