The
world’s most popular Google’s operating system, Android is
running about 75% of smart devices globally. We all know that one of
the major criticisms of the Android OS persisting to be fragmentation
of updates. Now, we find that nearly two-year-old Gingerbread has
been overtaken by Google's Jelly Bean Android version to place crown
of the most common variant. But, it is seen that ongoing
fragmentation is still leaving users open to attack, security
community said.
As
per the latest statistics from the Android
Developer Forum, it is
found that Android Jelly Bean is installed on 37.9% of Google
smartphones and tablets while Android 4.1 and the latest 4.2 update
is running on 32.3% and 5.6% respectively. Looking at this figure, we
come to know the older Gingerbread version with 34.1 percent share of
the ecosystem is beaten by latest version. Moreover, comparison with
upcoming Android JellyBean 4.3 is remaining.
As
we have mentioned the Android
4.3 update comes with
some minor tweaks. We all have an idea that Google loves to update
its camera features with each update to the OS. Android Apps Features
in this latest update is remarkable. It invites a whole new suite of
Android apps along with a new game centre. Accessing to Google Play
Games, we find remarkable Android Game Features for playing
multiplayer titles games. Apart from, inception of latest android 4.3
update also gives challenge to the Android developers as well.
Talking
about Android version 4.0 that means Ice Cream Sandwich, it credited
22.5 % of devices in its favor. This Android version 4.0 was
announced in 2011. If we adding percentage of Ice Cream Sandwich and
Gingerbread, we find about half of android device don’t have access
to latest versions, which is not good for Google.
Especially
for users, Android updates are important for fixing and updating
essential securities that help them protect their lot of private data
on their devices and tablets. Moreover, latest versions bring better
performance and features of personalization to make device more
interesting.
In
addition, if android doesn’t come with updates, it can be
aggravating that Android is believed to be an ‘open source’
system. However, very frequently we doesn’t see OEM’s roll out to
the latest update for older device. Besides, there are some companies
doesn’t enjoy latest updates even for premium end models, so it
doesn’t fair to blame only Google for this.
Moving
towards latest Apple’s update, we found that Apple’s latest OS
updates are rolled out to every user, excluding where Apple has
stopped creating the device in question. For example, iOS 6 wasn’t
rolled out to the first-generation iPad and the third generation iPod
Touch. According to Apple’s developers at its annual developer’s
conference 93% of users adopted iOS 6.
It
is must for OEM’s and Google to make user that their users are
accessing to the latest versions of Android rather than old one.
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