Back in the good old days, Google released monthly statistics on Android version distribution, through a publicly accessible website. These days, the company is far less transparent, likely due to the ruthlessness with which its mobile operating system has been mocked by Apple regarding the glacial pace at which devices manage to run the latest releases.
We don’t know for sure that all the mentions at Apple events have anything to do with this, by the way, we’re just speculating wildly, but the situation right now is that Google is making some numbers available through Android Studio, but very sporadically. There is a new update today and the previous one was in January.
Android version market share: January (left) versus now (right)
Compared to January, Android 13’s market share among Android devices more than doubled, from 5% to 12.1%. That’s a great performance when you look at it without the context, which is that Android 13 has been out for almost exactly eight months.
It’s still. Android 12 first made it to the charts almost a year after its release and at that point it only had 13.3% of the pie, so at this rate its successor is clearly set to overtake it. We saw Samsung up its update game massively last year, but Chinese companies like Oppo, OnePlus, and Realme were also pretty quick.
The strange thing about today’s ranking is that the most used version is still Android 11 from 2020, which leads the pack, about two and a half years after its release, with a market share of 23.5%. This is ahead of the combined 16.5% share of Android 12 and Android 12L.
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