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Android Marshmallow doubles its market share in a month

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Vlad 05 April, 2016

Google Android State of Android

The latest release of Google's mobile operating system has managed to double its market share within the last month. Marshmallow is now installed on 4.6% of all Android devices out there, whereas back in March it was sitting at 2.3%. That's some pretty convincing growth, even if it does come from a low number obviously.

In April, Lollipop has grabbed 35.8% of the market, which interestingly is 0.3% less than last month - so perhaps some of Marshmallow's gains have been made at the expense of Lollipop. Moving on, KitKat now has 33.4% market share, down 0.9% from March.

The three Jelly Bean releases taken together now account for 21.3% of the Android pie, one percentage point less than before. The very slow death of Ice Cream Sandwich continues with another 0.1% market share drop, while Gingerbread and Froyo have somehow managed to stay at 2.6% and 0.1%, respectively.

As you'd expect, any versions with less than 0.1% distribution aren't shown in the chart above. What we see here then are some nice gains for Marshmallow, while every other version (except for the Gingerbread and Froyo outliers) has lost market share. That's probably indicative of what you should expect for the near future too.

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  • pika2000
  • TIGG
  • 07 Apr 2016

Because Google doesn't actually care either. I mean why should they care? It's not like people stop buying Android phones.

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  • pika2000
  • TIGG
  • 07 Apr 2016

1. Google does not offer the Nexus on all markets. 2. In those markets where you can get a Nexus, other than the US, it is priced hundreds dollars more than US price. 3. The proponents of Android always say that the best thing about Android is th...

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  • pika2000
  • TIGG
  • 07 Apr 2016

Nope. Google is doing monthly security updates now. The Play service is more of updating APIs. OEMs that are sort-of compliant will show what level of security update your device has on the settings. Latest is March 2016 with April 2016 being relea...

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