Fragmentation of Android in 2015: growing and unstoppable – CNET in Spanish

So looks the fragmentation devices in 2015, with 24.093 devices seeking the attention of consumers OpenSignal

The fragmentation of the Android operating system, a strength and weakness at the same time for the platform, continues to rise this year to reach 24.093 1,294 different devices and different manufacturers, according to the latest OpenSignal studio company.

The company specializes in the mapping of telecommunications networks worldwide, and its results are achieved thanks to the installation of its mobile application as well as the study of 682,000 Android devices.

OpenSignal believe that Android fragmentation is a good thing because users have thousands of options to choose a device that meets your needs. However, it is also bad for developers, they have to design their applications for variants of devices and used versions of Android.

The study of 2015 noted that there are more than 1,000 new manufacturers this year than in 2012 – OpenSignal year in which he published its first study – were not on the market. Participants in 2015, Samsung is the one with the biggest slice of the market, with 37.8 percent; although the figure fell from 43 percent in 2014. South Korea’s had

Android fragmentation is also present in versions of the operating system and stresses that KitKat OpenSignal (4.4), is the most used version, with 39.3 percent market share, followed by Jelly Bean (4.x) with 33.6 percent. Lollipop (5.x), the latest public version, has a 18.1 percent over a year of availability

In contrast, OpenSignal also shows -. Almost zero – fragmentation in iOS , Apple mobile platform. iOS 8, the most recent public version of the operating system, add 85 percent, while iOS 7 controls 13 percent; one remaining 2 percent is older versions.

Fragmentation between operating systems iOS and Android OpenSignal

One of the main problems that so many Android fragmentation has to do with the mobile operators, it is they who decide when and which phones will receive the latest updates from Android. Almost always are just the high-end receiving such updates and, in most cases, months and even years it takes.

However, operators do this after studying whether the update will be compatible with a specific phone or if it will be suitable performance after receiving a new version of Android.

2015 will bring a new operating system Android, which will surely increase further fragmentation of the platform. Android M is the new flavor of Google’s mobile operating system, and its public release will be later this year.

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