Nearly 1 million activations per day (October estimates) make the scenery in the world of Androids change remarkably over short periods of time. The channel's developer platform serves well to show this change. The latest data, released earlier this month, accusing the Gingerbread (2.3) finally passed Froyo (2.2) and most widely used version of Android.
Gingerbread is a majority. For the time being.
The Gingerbread reached 50.51% while the popularity of Froyo version, which last month held the crown of most popular incarnation of the system, saw its share fall from 45.3% to 35.3%. She is ahead of the 2.1 Eclair (9.6%), 1.6 Donut (1.3%), 3.2 and 3.1 Honeycomb, with respectively 1.2% and 1.1%. The less-used versions of Android is 3.0, with 0.1% and 1.5 Cupcake with 0.8%. Only the two latest versions of the platform, Gingerbread and Honeycomb (developed for tablets), gained share in the period.
Although the Gingerbread has won more than half the territory in Android smartphones, the deed does not chill the discussions of the fragmentation of the platform. With five releases in the street, the platform gets a new leader of use shortly after the presentation of a new version that will incorporate statistics. Besides, soon, to further increase the distance between the latest version of the program and apparatus frozen in their updates.
