{"id":477145,"date":"2023-01-20T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=477145"},"modified":"2023-01-20T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:11:53","slug":"android-13-adoption-going-at-a-snails-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/477145-android-13-adoption-going-at-a-snails-pace.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 13 adoption going at a snail’s pace"},"content":{"rendered":"

9to5Google<\/strong><\/a> reports that Android Studio has released its official Android version distribution numbers, revealing the most popular versions of Google’s mobile OS at the start of 2023.<\/p>\n

2020’s Android 11 was still the most widely-used version, accounting for 24.4% of users.<\/p>\n

It was followed by Android 10, with 19.5% of the market share, and Android 12, with 18.9%<\/p>\n

The latest version of the OS \u2014 Android 13 \u2014 was running on 5.2% of Android users’ devices across the globe, five months after its launch.<\/p>\n

Although the number might seem very low, it’s worthwhile noting that the uptake in new Android versions tends to be quite slow, because a myriad of smartphone manufacturers support the operating system.<\/p>\n

Companies like Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, LG, Nokia, Sony, Oppo, and Vivo must each adapt new Android versions for their specific devices and software.<\/p>\n

The chart below shows the distribution of Android versions across global devices as of January 2023.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, the Android 13 adoption rate appears to be relatively slow compared to other recent Android releases.<\/p>\n

According to GlobalStats Statcounter<\/strong><\/a>, Android 12 was running on 7.34% of Android smartphones by February 2022, five months after its launch in October of the previous year.<\/p>\n

Android 11 was running on 8.95% of devices five months after its launch in September 2020.<\/p>\n

While it appears that many OEMs have accelerated their rollout of Android 13 to more devices within a shorter period than with previous versions, Android 13 is seen as a more iterative update.<\/p>\n

That could mean that fewer people see the need to upgrade from Android 12 to Android 13.<\/p>\n

The slower adoption comes despite efforts by Samsung, the world’s biggest Android smartphone maker, to make the OS available on all supported devices by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n

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The latest version of Google’s mobile operating system seems to be seeing slower adoption than its two predecessors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":461704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[397,57912,63231,69411,76510,83811,167,49341],"class_list":["post-477145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-android-10","tag-android-11","tag-android-12","tag-android-13","tag-android-studio","tag-google","tag-mobile-operating-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477187,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477145\/revisions\/477187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}