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Android Lollipop movin' on up as it nears 10 percent share

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 05 May 2015 10:58

Android Lollipop movin' on up as it nears 10 percent share

It took quite some time for Android 5.0 Lollipop to gain some traction but the latest Google operating system is finally reaching a significant milestone.
As of the period ended May 4th, Lollipop 5.0 is on 9 percent of Android devices and the latest Android 5.1 is on 0.7 percent of devices.

At the end of March, that figure was still floating around 5 percent so the growth has been significant in the last thirty days or so.

Android 4.4 KitKat fell a few percentage points to 39.8 percent but remains the dominant Android OS for the time being.

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