Android’s latest version Jelly Bean is on the high with 33% adoption rate and ICS is at 25% adoption rate in the market worldwide. The stats come from Google, and I’m sure they’re happy about this adoption rate.
One of the biggest problems that the Android ecosystem is facing since its birth is the adoption rate and fragmentation. Since Android is an open platform, and since its upto the manufacturers to push an upgrade to their customers, the adoption rate has been pretty slow with Android devices, whenever a new version comes out. But looks like its changing really slow and steady.
Google has updated its platform versions dashboard with new data, which they’re now collecting based on the visits users make from their devices to the Google Play Store, instead of collecting data when a user just signs-in into any Google service.
The statistics are pretty clear. Though the Android adoption rate is slow when compared to iOS, which is capable of pushing the adoption rate to over 50% on releasing a new version, this is a steady growth for the platform.
While Jelly Bean now has over 33% adoption rate, the ICS version of Android sees a steady decline for good. The main reason which I think is because of the Google Now and other such compelling features that the new Jelly Bean update brings to the users.
But in the graph, there’s something really interesting. We can still see the age old Gingerbread alive on the Android devices and also has a considerable amount of market share still. Looks like its time to kill the version forcefully to get the community moving forward.
