It's that time of the month again!! This is when we find out how badly Android is fragmented. According to Google, Jelly Bean is on about 40.5% devices, up from 37.9% the previous month. If you look at Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean combined, the total is at 63.1%, up from 61.3% last month.
I know a lot people seem to get excited how great this is, but seriously folks. Ice Cream Sandwich debuted in October of 2011 and Jelly Bean debuted last June 2012. I'm sorry, this is nothing to get excited about. In fact, Gingerbread, which was announced in November 2010, is still on 33.1% of devices.
The good news is that Android device sales continue to rock & roll while Tim Cook keeps arguing about fragmentation. Translation – nobody cares.
source: Google
For the first time i came across a problem with using a less than 1 year old Samsung phone using and older version of Android.
It simply wasn’t supported on the service and app that I wanted to use. Why do they keep issuing and upgrading new phones when they do not offer any upgrade to existing phones.
BTW the service WAS available to ALL versions of IOS!
It’s not like consumers have that much of a choice about the OS of their Android phone. Getting JB for most requires a new phone.
And until the S4 and HTC One came out the new phone choices weren’t that much of an upgrade for most (the S3 being the exception). I sat for months with my GB phone waiting for the S4 to come out. If it hadn’t come out, I’d still be waiting.
A new phone is not necessary for JB, JB is available with almost any custom ROM. My phone which came with Froyo is running CM10.2 JB