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Casey Johnson:
Motorola Atrix 4G owners will not get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update the company promised them, according to a newly revised upgrade chart. The phones will continue to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, dealing another blow to the integrity of Google’s upgrade program.
This would be pathetic if Google didn’t own this company. But they do. So it’s dually jackassified.
Speaking of slow Android update adoption, David Smith reminds us of his stats from May (which I also linked to back then), when the latest iOS update hit.
While it took Android 4.0 7 months to reach 7 percent, it took iOS 5.1.1 19 hours to hit that number, according to Smith’s records.
The results are in, as of June 1, Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) now has 7.1% of the Android market. Two months ago, the OS had just 2.9%, so this is progress. But that’s 7% in 7 months. There’s no spin you can put on this: it’s pathetic.
The race continues to be on for Ice Cream Sandwich to get to 10% penetration before Android 5.0 (aka Jellybean) is announced, presumably at Google I/O at the end of the month. It’s not looking good.
65% of Android users are still using some variation of Android 2.3 — and that number is actually still growing.
Google will announce the next version of their OS before 10% of their users are on the last version. Think about how insane that is for a second.
The Sprint version of the Nexus S finally gets Ice Cream Sandwich today.
Better 5 months late than never, I suppose.
…from 1.6% to 2.9%.
ICS has been out for 5 months.
Time it took iOS 5.1 to go from 0% to 61%? Two weeks. (And technically only 2.4% of Android users even have the latest version of ICS: 4.0.3.)
Will Ice Cream Sandwich hit 10% penetration before Jellybean is a reality? Even 5%?
The race is on.
At least it’s no longer the OS for the 1%.
HTC posted the following update to their Facebook page:
HTC has been working hard to get its Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades ready, and we’re excited to announce that our first round of ICS upgrades will roll out by the end of March for the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE, followed soon there after by the HTC Sensation XL.
In addition, we can confirm Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades will be coming later this year to the HTC Rezound, HTC Vivid, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G, HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and HTC Desire HD. Stay tuned for more updates on Ice Cream Sandwich releases in the coming weeks.
In other words, roughly 5 months after the initial ICS roll-out, 3 HTC phones will finally get the new OS. A 4th will get it in an undisclosed time “soon” thereafter.
Meanwhile, “later this year”, 8 more HTC phones will get the update. Presumably, “later this year” stands for well past the 6-month mark after the initial ICS release — and potentially much later.
Let’s say it’s late summer that this happens for some of those phones. Who wants to bet that the next major release of Android, Jellybean, will be announced by then?
Google I/O is June 27-29…
The good news: In the past month, the spread of Ice Cream Sandwich across Android devices has nearly doubled.
The bad news: “Nearly doubled” means going from 0.6% of devices to 1% of devices.
Three months in, 1%. That’s progress.
Downside: 10 million-plus Android users getting screwed.
Upside: TouchWiz is living up to its name.
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“We are currently assessing this source code, and over the next month we will be determining which devices will get the upgrade and when…”
Motorola explaining their next steps to release Android Ice Cream Sandwich
To an 99.9% of end users, this entire thing must read like pure Latin.
Actually, scratch that.
Pure gibberish.
Worse, when translated, this clearly means it’s going It’s to be months before any Motorola Android user gets ICS.
This entire post encompasses Android’s true fragmentation problem wrapped in one big shit-stained bow.
“But of the three major smartphone operating systems, Android is still by far the most confusing. It’s also the least likely to inspire joy.”
Google isn’t upgrading their flagship Nexus One to the new Ice Cream Sandwich flavor of Android. Why? It’s “too old”.
The Nexus One was released on January 5, 2010 — not even two years ago.
Apple often gets dinged for cutting support to older hardware, forcing users to upgrade if they want the latest and greatest software. So I feel it’s necessary to point out that the iPhone 3GS is 7 months older than the Nexus One. And guess what it runs? Apple’s just-released latest and greatest operating system, iOS 5.
