Although the presentation of the new AAndroid 4.4 KitKat will once again put a stop to the fight against fragmentation de Google, data on adoption rates of Jelly Bean continue to improve month by month and the results for November are still the most positive, since it has finally crossed the symbolic barrier of the 50%.
The arrival of Android 4.4 will re-open the gap in next month's data, but for now, the launch of Android 4.3 as a new version of Jelly Bean and the spacing with which he has been making public Google the last updates of its mobile operating system, have paid off: since May (when the Android Key Lime Pie release was initially expected) until now, that is, in six months, the percentage of adoption of Jelly Bean has passed from 28,4% to the current 52%.
Jelly Bean users double Gingerbread users
Besides the good news that Jelly Bean have finally passed the 50%, another positive fact is that this growth has not taken place so much at the expense of Ice Cream Sandwich as of the oldest versions of Android: Gingerbread, which until recently was still the most widely used version, has fallen to the 26,3% (from 38,5% in May) and now represents half of the users who Jelly Bean. Devices with the latest versions of Android (since Android 4.0 onwards) reach, in total, a 72%.
December data will already take into account Andrid 4.4 KitKat
The situation will change, as we say, from next month, in any case, with the arrival of Android 4.4, although we can trust that the percentage of users with versions prior to Android 4.0 it will keep going down. On the other hand, we have already heard from some manufacturers who are trying hard to get their users to get the new update soon, without too much delay with respect to the users of Nexus.
Source: Google.