Two years after debut, Gingerbread still dominant Android OS

December 04, 2012

Although Google's Android has made some impressive leaps forward over the last two years, roughly half of its users aren't seeing those improvements because 50.8 percent of Android devices are still running Android 2.3, known as Gingerbread. The figure comes from Google's developer website, whose data is based on the number of devices that have accessed Google Play within a given 14-day period. As Dwight Silverman at the Houston Chronicle points out, Google released Android 2.3 on December 6, 2010 – two years ago this week. The new data from Google, updated Monday, shows that the two-year-old Gingerbread still has wider distribution than any other version of Android. Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, appears on 27.5 percent of devices, according to Google's data. Android 4.1 and 4.2, both known as Jelly Bean, appear on 5.9 percent and 0.8 percent of devices, respectively. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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