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The spread of Android 13 is pathetic

For years, Google has been trying to make the change to the main Android version as painless as possible from the manufacturer’s side, but the partners are not willing to devote serious resources to the publication of generational system updates as soon as possible and for as long as possible. With the exception of Samsung, which brought the Android 13 update to dozens of phones and tablets by the end of last year, so that not only the Pixel reference phones are up-to-date, which do not appear in the statistics based on the low number of sales. Although the official version statistics do not list the manufacturers, it is safe to guess that most phones running the updated system bear the Galaxy name.

(source: Android Developers)

Conversely, this means that there are very few phones from any other brand running Android 13 across the market, and it’s telling that even with Samsung and Google, only 12.1% are T-branded flagships of all devices currently in use. The rough thing is that even Android 12 barely made it to the podium with 16.5%, because there are still more mobile phones and tablets running Android 11 (23.5%) and Android 10 (18.5%) there is But the most humiliating thing is Android 9 Pie’s 12.3% share, making Android 13 only the 5th most popular major version at the moment.

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Let’s add that for at least some devices, many other manufacturers have also brought the current system within an acceptable time, but from the middle category and below the situation is horrible, the multi-year update guarantee and the promised update packages are also often delayed. That is why it would be important for the European Union to pass the draft that would oblige manufacturers to provide five-year software support as soon as possible. After all, throwing a phone in the trash because it ran into security holes and compatibility issues with missed updates is an unacceptable waste and environmental burden, while the middle category has been providing enough horsepower for the long term for years, so that the mobile phone can be used even by the second or third owner with everything suitable for data communication and payment be it, plus not a cheaper phone has enough horsepower to survive.

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