Ten years ago, Android users suffered from updates: the latest version of the operating system, after being launched by Google and available on their own Pixel (or Nexus) devices, took too long to reach the rest of the mobiles, even years. Who has already changed, Android updates arrive much faster For a few years.
However, Android 15 did not respect this promise. The latest version of the Google operating system has barely reached less than 5% of the devices, more than six months after its original launch. And one of the managers is the delay of an IU 7, the version of the Samsung Galaxy system based on Android 15.
Android 15 took a long time to arrive. Android 16 could be the solution
Google has published a new market share report of Android versions between devices that work with this operating system, and data are catastrophic: until April 1 Only 4.5% of devices have Android 15A minimum amount compared to the numbers which had reached the previous versions of the operating system during the same period.
For example, the Android 14 update was very fast. According to StatCounter data, approximately one 20.38% of Android devices already had Android 14 in April 2024. The same analytical company guarantees that in August of the same year, Android 14 was already present in around 30% of Android devices.
What's going on with Android 15 and what is a possible solution? In general, some manufacturers have already updated several of their devices to the latest version of the operating system: Google and its pixel, OnePlus, nothing and Xiaomi are some of them. However, Samsung is one of the manufacturers with the market share the most market in the Android ecosystem and until April 1 Most of their devices had not yet been updated A Android 15.
A user interface 7, the version of the Samsung Galaxy system based on Android 15, has undergone significant delays, which prevented the business from starting to update its mobiles and tablets. Until the end of March, the only Samsung mobiles with a UI 7 and Android 15 were the Galaxy S25 and the Galaxy A56 and A36.
Fortunately, Samsung has already solved the problems and has launched the first aircraft update, and many others will be updated in the coming weeks.
A possible solution to this problem is the arrival of Android 16. It is expected that Google will launch the new version of the operating system before the timeOr, and the rest of the manufacturers will follow with their own personalization layers. A possible solution or improvement may be to make “blurry and new account”, leaving behind Android 15 and accelerating the update of Android 16. Samsung, for example, would be one of the manufacturers who plans to accelerate the arrival of its next major update, one UI 8, this year.
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