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Android Oreo, one year later in spite of Treble, 12.1%

Oreo was in tandem with Treble. Updates in Oreo and in the future should show an increase. Not upgrades to Oreo.

Which is why most OEMs went with Nougat instead of Oreo for their brand new 2017/2018 devices.

I really like it went this bad as always, because apparently as disclosed at Google IO 2018 they are finally considering making updates a requirement on the license agreements.

Well considering they just got slapped by the EU for doing stuff like that, I can see that license agreement getting weaker not stronger.

They got slapped for abusing their monopoly to force OEMs to integrate Google Play Services, which is a bit different than ensuring my phone doesn't look like a Swiss cheese in security.

Yes, and now they can't "abuse their monopoly" to force device support, because the one bargaining chip they had ("do it or we will take away google play services") can't be used.

Agreed. Put another way: Treble should make the Oreo distribution percentage go down more quickly than other versions did once they're not the latest. Since Pie was released today, this is the starting line. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Where could one find graphs of the Android major versions' distribution percentage over time? https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/ just shows today's numbers. I'd like to see a "distribution vs days since following version released" with a line for each old version.

Wikipedia has a nice graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#/media...

Needs an update though; this one only goes up to February this year.

Treble (which launched with Oreo) requires a different partition layout, a rather significant change to do on a running system.

If anything, Oreo would see lower uptake due to Treble, although that's mitigated by not making Treble a requirement for Oreo upgrades (ie. even if your device was upgraded to Oreo from something < 8.0, Treble still won't help you)

* Globally, including really poor countries.

USA, EU, etc. are more than 40%.

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