Marshmallow finally jumps past 1% in Android distribution chart

02 February, 2016
The newest iteration of the mobile operating system still trails older versions by a whole lot.

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  • 03 Feb 2016

AnonD-399271, 03 Feb 2016only 1% in 4 months ? we can safely say that marshmallow ... moreAt least more manufacturers than ever are dedicated to updating their handsets to the latest iteration as quickly as possible, whether it's Moto, Samsung, LG, Sony, HTC, heck even some of the cheap Chinese companies too. It won't be long when the numbers change drastically for the better.

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    • NUh
    • 03 Feb 2016

    Anonymous, 03 Feb 2016LOL! I can't remember when was the last time my Android pho... moreHe must still be one of 0.1% of Froyo users lol

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      • ut%
      • 03 Feb 2016

      only 1% in 4 months ?
      we can safely say that marshmallow has been a big failure.

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        • 03 Feb 2016

        JOJO, 03 Feb 2016who cares? with or without Marshmallow, the Android phone... moreLOL! I can't remember when was the last time my Android phone restarted, freezed or crashed. Stop spreading lies already.

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          • ndp
          • 03 Feb 2016

          who cares?
          with or without Marshmallow, the Android phones are freezing, are crashing or restarting.

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            • AnonD-8044
            • dQm
            • 02 Feb 2016

            They are saving MM for S7 then updates for other phones will be quicker. The effort required to update an old phone is huge compared to bringing out a phone with MM straight away. My own thoughts are it is quite possible there are too many models out their that there are not enough engineers to cope or pay to get MM on devices.

            Security updates however SHOULD be issued to save any misuse. Probably nothing would happen anyway I have never heard of anyone been hit by these viruses if your tech savvy but that said never heard anything with normobs.

              Most no. Of android phones are sold by samsung. Samsung will not update all of them to marshmallow or will update very slowly. Hence the low percentage of marshmallow.

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                • haS
                • 02 Feb 2016

                Now if only Google posted the percentage of devices that run February's Nexus security bulletin. I'm guessing it would be single digits...

                In fact a pie-chart with the breakdown of all security bulletins might have shown that the vast majority of devices are just wide-open in the wild without any kind of security update.

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                  • 39x
                  • 02 Feb 2016

                  Flip Most people still on kitkat .

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