There were two numbers that I wanted to come back to after the endurance run that was the three-hour keynote at the Google I/O Developer Conference today. They came from Google’s Sundar Pichai as he touched on the success of one of the core elements of Google’s Android software, Google Play Services: [An update to] Google Play Services ships every six weeks and 93% of our users are on the latest version of Google Play services across all versions of Android. In fact by shipping every six weeks we can, in many ways, iterate faster than the typical OS release cycle. While Google is rightly criticised for the fragmentation of Android when compared to iOS (89% of iOS users are on iOS7, the latest version of the software, only 13.6% of Android users are running KitKat and 58.4% are a version back on the Jelly Bean implementation; Bloomberg), the spread of version numbers can be easily explained when you look at the time it takes for the vast numbers of handset and operator combinations to be certified both at launch and for each firmware update.
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