Your Android smartphone is not updated, but whatever – Hypertext

One of the issues that always revolve around the analysis of operating systems, particularly mobile, is adoption. With it we measure the rate at which new OS version is coming to the total number of phones with this system, and is measured in percentages over the period. Typically report that the degree of Android adoption is always less . And objectively, it is well below getting Windows Phone or iOS, since the number of steps that manufacturers have to give until it can submit the version to the terminals is much higher, but that we have discussed on other occasions.

yesterday mentioned the case of the Nexus 9 and for me to have my terminal to date is important because soil appreciate the latest. But we must assume that, in markets such as Spanish, with such a high penetration of smartphone against dumbphone, other factors matter more than the operating system functions. We need to expand a view and see that we are not the center of the world. That is a factor that makes “irrelevant” Android smartphones are updated . Here are two others.

Support of develop yourselves to my

Jan Dawson. As we see, Android versions fail to reach very high before the next is released.

Here we live the snake that bites its tail. As a new operating system Android has a very slow about adopting growth, and the former probably has not even reached even 50% of the base phone when the new one is released, developers choose to keep applications well optimized for 3 or even 4 versions of the operating system, so users do not suffer loss of function too. Many applications may even “old” systems with many visual developments of new design guidelines.

It happens in Kit Kat with my Material , is that although the status bar no is colored, if they are floating buttons, some animations, etc. In ArsTechnica they reviewed it usable remains a system like Gingerbread today , thanks to Google it continues to bear at the level of many APIs and apps.

Jan Dawson. Here we see that well worth the developer support the more extended versions, although not the last.

The long support system

In this example we see Ars Technica as a same operating system (2.3) there is a huge gain in more than four years.

When Google launched the Play Services , began to “clean up” the core applications system, removing them from AOSP and taking them to the Play Store as exclusive apps, which many equated to close Android . Therefore, he was very harshly criticized and Mountain View. But ultimately, that’s what has allowed the practice fragmentation increasingly is less in the sense that a user can have in previous systems to the latter.

Indeed, many applications that have relatively recent features, have support from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which, remember, meets this summer three years . Others, such as WhatsApp, only require 2.1 Eclair , which has already 5 years. So I think that, despite everything, many users do not demand too much smartphone can survive with old models year average.

Conclusion

We all want our terminal it is updated to the latest version, and developers also would like to have the entire user base with the latest system available, but if not, there is much flexibility in Android , which although not due to causes but forced and artificial ideals, does manage to make very old terminals or other outdated, have a long life. No excuse to manufacturers, but the remedy does not disappoint .