Still no Pie in the Android distribution chart

George, 29 September 2018

There's a huge segmentation in the Android OS versions distribution and updates never come soon enough - there's little to dabate here. Every now and then, however, a new distribution chart comes out so we can muse on the trends and numbers.

The latest edition puts Oreo at just under 1/5 of the market (19.2% total between v8.0 and 8.1), a 4.6 percentage points increase from the last time we checked. Nougat's piece of the pie is still the largest, but there's a slight drop (29.3% vs. 30.8%) so a bit of the Oreo gains have probably come from updates, not just new releases.

Speaking of Pie, the newest Android 9.0 is yet to make its way to the chart - no wonder that's the case when it's pretty much just the Pixels having it and the odd Android One device that's only now starting to see some update love.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
02 Oct 2018
PA7

motorOLA was faster than nexus update. Now sony the fastest, Since sony not started yet, dont expect galaxy to be first base on my experience as note user. iOS the best in update, but technology far behind motorOLA

Anonymous
01 Oct 2018
PA7

Jay
01 Oct 2018
CQE

Hey, nothing wrong with Marshmallow, I still have my HTC One M8 running it just fine. All apps still work and supported by developers, plus with only 2GB of RAM the phone still multitask very efficiently. It is my back up to my "daily driver" OG Pix...