3-Month later, Android 5.0 (Lollipop), has only 1.6% marketshare

[razor767]

Well I keep hearing that it's really buggy so maybe manufacturers are waiting for things to be ironed out? I still haven't got it for my HTC One m7.  

[AlexGoesHigh]

Is the Moto G struggling with Lollipop?

not really, is more of a lollipop issue that the phone, everything takes 1 second longer to load and its laggy af after boot, other that its fine

[c3p0_]

My nexus had more issues prior to 5.0.

Might just be lucky, however, I have yet to see the downside of upgrading.

Hm was the opposite here. Apps random freezed. And touch sometimes bugged out. Flashing back to 4.4 fixed it.

[Guest]

not really, is more of a lollipop issue that the phone, everything takes 1 second longer to load and its laggy af after boot, other that its fine

Ooo good. Well maybe a fix can undo the issue.

Still no Lollipop cm12 on my oneplus one

[Guest Kloaked]

I'm still running Kitkat on my moto x because there hasn't been an update for it yet. -___-

[zacRupnow]

Based on what Wendel said on The Tek a while back, I won't like 5.x aesthetically but I will still update for the security features.

[MoonSpot]

Well the "upgrade" to lollipop bricked my Nexus7(2012), so I'm not helping them gaining market share at least.  Don't think I'll be getting another android tablet either, think I'll try a Windows tablet next if I bother with another tablet.

[Opcode]

Well the "upgrade" to lollipop bricked my Nexus7(2012), so I'm not helping them gaining market share at least.  Don't think I'll be getting another android tablet either, think I'll try a Windows tablet next if I bother with another tablet.

I personally think x86 Windows tablets are the way to go these days. Android is good as a phone OS but for a tablet there's so much more flexibility with a full flavor of Windows.

 

Yez it can even run Crysis

[Nowak]

Oh good, good to see the update process on Android is just as bad as Windows Phone. Carriers..

[Tataffe]

Well it is, they didnt have to release android that way

 

They could also have a way to allow all android phones (that are capable) of being updated to the latest release of android, similar to how a pc can be updated to windows 8.1 and 10

 

They could pressure manufacturers and carriers to release updates more frequently and with less bloat

 

But they did release it like that, which is logical for a company that cares for market share a lot more than for the user experience. All these measurements that you counted up would have led to a significantly lower market share of Android, in favor of the manufacturer's own OSes.

[NeatSquidYT]

[Yoinkerman]

Well my gs3 was never going to get it anyway...

[ShadowCaptain]

But they did release it like that, which is logical for a company that cares for market share a lot more than for the user experience. All these measurements that you counted up would have led to a significantly lower market share of Android, in favor of the manufacturer's own OSes.

Fragmentation is worse for customer experience than closed source

Hence why I use iOS

[TroubleKlef]

I really wish Google would mandate that all phones running Android must support the latest OS for 2 years. 

 

This is a reasonable amount to ask for manufacturers/carriers and it is in line with the common 2-year agreement here in the US. Unfortunately this will never happen.

[fredey]

I actually generally dislike android Lolipop and parts of material design. Information density is down as well as flexibility both that imo were struck at a good balance in kitkat. Yeah it looks nice but for me it i significantly less intuitive, this being doubly bad as it was designed to be intuitive. I wish they would go more in the direction that some costum roms are going. I mean they exist cause people want them so they should be respected and integrated into the os imo. Have the flexibilty to switch between high information density and low info dens. that would be awesome.

[Nineshadow]

I have lollipop on a Galaxy S Plus.

Lol.

(Cyanogen mod)

[Speedbird]

Blame the OEMs and carriers, because they are responsible for getting you the latest updates. Right now the best way to get Lollipop is a custom ROM. Official CM12 supports about 30 devices, and then there's unofficial CM12... And other ROMs... And GPE devices.

[PhantomChevron]

Well, oems such as motorola are pushing the lollipop update to its phones, so it is mostly other oems

[PhilBoisvert]

And??.... Most company have not updated their phone yet. I would asume that 4.4 to 5.0 will be longer than 4.3 to 4.4

[MegaDave91]

I would love to rollback to KitKat on my Nexus 7 2013; Lollipop has been nothing but sluggish and buggy.

[Cheddle]

Carriers are dropping the ball here. the OTA updates are rubbish... Cant wait for 5.0 - likely flash ROM with it soon.

[gastew15]

It's because Android 5.0 is a buggy bitch. At its current revision it still feels like a beta.

Not really, I've had LoliPop on my Nexus 5 since it was still Android L, which happens to be my daily driver, and I haven't really ran into any real bugs in quite a long time, let alone enough to call it "a buggy bitch"...

[Opcode]

Not really, I've had LoliPop on my Nexus 5 since it was still Android L, which happens to be my daily driver, and I haven't really ran into any real bugs in quite a long time, let alone enough to call it "a buggy bitch"...

It operates fine at a consumer level tho if you dig through the 5.0.2 source tree the term "buggy bitch" fits accordingly. There's a lot yet to be fixed to increase stability and efficiency of the new operating system. Hopefully 5.0.3 comes with fixes to plug the memory leak that Android 5.0.x has that causes the system to chew up 1.2 GB of memory for no reason at all. On a Nexus 5 with 2 GB of memory it might not be that noticeable to you but for devices rocking only 1 GB of memory it's a critical issue.

 

To see if your device is experiencing this problem go to.

 

Settings -> Apps -> Running

 

Check your "System" memory consumption if it's nearing 1 GB then you are experiencing the memory leak.

 

There other problems not as critical as this that still gives Android 5.0 a "beta" feel. It needs to mature more before it gets massively deployed to devices. Most who develop custom roms plug these leaks and fix the other issues while they build the AOSP branch. Google needs to pick up the pace with fixing Android 5.0.

[MrTiC]

Google should NEVER have let manufacturers and carriers organise updates

 

All android phones (provided minimum specs are there) should be allowed to upgrade to newer versions of android as soon as they are available, just like a PC user can update the OS

 

By letting this happen they have fragmented the OS beyond repair

 

Verry true, im running a LG maximus g pro and im still at 4.1 cause LG wont roll out the updates

[That Norwegian Guy]

Well, oems such as motorola are pushing the lollipop update to its phones, so it is mostly other oems

 

Except I still haven't got it on my Motorola G LTE, which was advertised as "right around the corner" right at launch of lollipop, so that's bullshit.

 

I'm thinking they aren't even letting people upgrade until it's localized for their language, which is horseshit because I use English anyway.