Android 6.0 Marshmallow cracks 15%, others shrink slowly
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Android 6.0 Marshmallow continues to grow and last month it cracked 15%. It's still miles behind KitKat (29.2%) and Lollipop (35.5%), but the gap is closing.
All versions prior to 6.0 lost numbers, with pre-KitKat versions still powering one in five of all Android devices. Jelly Bean (v4.1 to v4.3) in particular is still bigger than Marshmallow with a combined share of 16.6%.
At least those versions get somewhat advanced features through updates of the Google Play Store. Antiques like Ice Cream Sandwich, Gingerbread and Froyo are thankfully almost extinct.
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Soon, Android 7.0 Nougat will launch and the whole story of "latest Android version has tiny market share" will start all over again.
OpenGL is still mostly at v2.0 (46%) with v3.0 almost matching it (42.6%) and very few phones are at v3.1 (11.4%). I wonder if Google will add Vulkan to these stats - phones are already starting to support it (including the Galaxy Note7). Vulkan requires Marshmallow, though, so that will slow its growth.
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- AnonD-551020
- 21 Aug 2016
- fu%
On gsmarena?
- AnonD-402029
- 18 Aug 2016
- tVn
nah..most ppl come here are normal, non-technical smartphone user, most of them dont even know what is cyanogenmod
- AnonD-237381
- 18 Aug 2016
- 8UF
I use those features a lot, if you think that charging your contactless public transport card isn't a useful feature, well, I can just be sorry for you...