Maybe Android owners just don’t care about updates
The other day I linked to an excellent and well-researched piece by Michael DeGusta of the understatement which showed how the majority of android handsets spent much of their existence running old versions of the mobile operating system. Some of the statistics were indeed horrifying … for example, seven of the eighteen Android phones have never run a current version of the Android OS.
This got me thinking.
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There are a lot of Android users out there. A hell of a lot. Most of these Android users will have handsets running old (sometimes antique) versions of Android. You’d think that these people would be screaming for the latest version of Android.
But they’re not.
For example, over the past 12 months, I’ve had fewer than a dozen people asking me about how to upgrade Android handsets to the latest version. This is a low number, especially given that I get a lot of other Android related questions and queries in on a regular basis.
Now maybe my readers are all technical enough to use mods like CyanogenMod to get newer features onto older handsets, but I doubt that’s the case. Some are, sure, probably far more than the average, but I’d still expect more people to be asking me about the subject.