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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I'm on 4.3
4.4 is Kitkat, which isn't available yet.
Those charts are a little disingenuousness to be honest. Companies like Samsung (IIRC) are still releasing phones on Gingerbread because it's easier to put on a simple flip phone, I think my Dad bought some Samsung phone for 150 at Telus which was running Gingerbread, this was late winter of this year.
Apple's claims, the amazing high percentage that get the latest upgrades, are a little dubious if you think about it too.
The iPhone 4 is getting iOS 7 and will be included in the percentage of iOS devices that got the upgrade... but is it a true upgrade, is it really iOS 7?
Things missing from iOS 7 in the iPhone 4
-3D Flyover or turn-by-turn navigation in Maps.
Panorama mode or Filters in the Camera app (filters can still be applied after-the-fact in the Photos app).
-AirPlay Mirroring.
-Siri.
-AirDrop.
-A number of the new graphical effects present on all other iOS 7 devices. These include
-translucency effects throughout the OS,
-live wallpapers,
-and the parallax effect used on the Home screen.
So while Apple will use this in the claim of high adoption of iOS 7... it's just mostly BS.
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Not for developers it isn't. There are already some popular apps that have updates that won't run on anything before iOS7 and developers can be confident that they can pull that off because of the high adoption rate. It would be impossible to do that the day a new Android version is released because anyone who isn't running a Nexus device or hasn't rooted their phone might be waiting months just to even get it, never mind the hundreds of millions of devices still in use that will likely never be able to be updated to current software.
Yeah it's not going to run perfectly on an iPhone 4, but we're talking about a 3 year old device. The Galaxy S which was released 3 weeks prior hasn't seen a software update in 2 years and anyone unfortunate enough to be still using it is stuck on 2.3.
Personally I think Android's fragmentation stats give a pretty good indication of the actual devices people are buying. They're selling loads of flagship devices that are up to date, but there's also a massive portion of their sales which are just junk devices running 2-3 year old software.