14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like Android 5.0 Lollipop adoption advances more slowly than it should, and if things continue to roll at the same pace, it wouldn't surprise anyone if, by the time Google announces the next version, Lollipop barely reached 10% of the Android market.
Anyway, Google has just announced the Android distribution numbers for March. The data this stat numbers are based on has been collected during a 7-day period ending on March 2.
The good news is Android 5.0 Lollipop more than doubles its market share, but the bad news it's only at 3.3%. That is a bit disappointing considering the new version of Android has been released about 5 months ago.
Leading the Android market share, once again KitKat is used by around 40.9% customers. Next in line, Android 4.2.x Jelly Bean with 19.4% and Jelly Bean 4.1.x with 17.3%, while Jelly Bean 4.3 has only 5.9% market share.
KitKat and Jelly Bean compete for the first place
It's interesting that, if we sum up all three versions of Android Jelly Bean, it will exceed KitKat, having reached 42.6% market share.
Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread is still a part of the statistic with 6.9%, whereas Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has only 5.9% market share.
As expected, the last place is reserved for Android 2.2 Froyo, which doesn't not want to give up, still having a 0.4% market share.
Keep in mind though that because this data is gathered from the new Google Play Store app, which supports Android 2.2 and above, devices running older versions are not included. Still, older versions of Android shouldn't account more than 1%, since Froyo is below 0.5% itself.
Let's hope the situation will improve considerably in the next few months, otherwise Lollipop will still be used by less than 10% of Android users.