Android Oreo on almost no smartphone: Distribution is very slow
of David Wurm 
on November 14, 2017, 17:48 p.m. | Write a comment
Every month, Google publishes statistics with the current Android distribution. The development of Android Oreo is particularly interesting at the moment. Things are going pretty slowly there. Interesting: the version with the most market share is still a slightly older Android operating system.
They are here: the Android distribution figures for November 2017. Google has also provided some very interesting insights into the development of the latest Android 8.0 on the Android blog. This shows that hardly any users are using Android Oreo. Compared to the previous month of October, the market share rose from 0,2 percent to just 0,3 percent. Many manufacturers have not yet managed to update their users. Smartphones with the latest Android version can currently be counted almost by hand.
Android 6.0 remains the most widely used operating system
Android Nougat recorded the highest increase compared to the previous month. Here, growth rose from 17,8 percent to 20,6 percent - an increase of 2,8 percent. But Android 7.0 is not yet at the top: Android Marshmallow continues to top all values with 30,9 percent. Closely followed by Android 5.0 Lollipop with 27,2 percent. Android 3 comes in third and fourth place, each with the versions Jelly Bean and KitKat.
If you look at the least distributed versions, Android 8.0 is still in last place. This is a poor ranking for an operating system that was released this year. Considering that Android 2.3 Gingerbread is even ahead of Android Oreo - which was announced in 2010 and is used on 0,5 percent of Android smartphones.
It will be some time before Android 8.0 Oreo makes it to the top or among the top 2. In contrast to its competitor Apple, the distribution of Google's Android is rather slow and often takes several years. However, this is also due to the fact that many manufacturers first have to adapt their smartphones to the new software. Apple does not have to do this and can therefore deliver the software quickly.