Update is too slow, Google may reclaim Android update ownership

Edison Investment Research analyst Richard Windsor pointed out that Google has been impatient with the speed of the Android device update, and will soon take action to regain control of the firmware upgrade. Google is likely to include the Android system in its service layer Google Mobile Services to solve the problem of the Android version being too fragmented and lacking in organization.



Android's latest operating system Android 6.0 (Marshmallow, Marshmallow) has been on the market for 4 months. There are only a handful of Android users who are "fortunate enough to use". Some media quoted analysts as saying that Google may gradually withdraw the current mastery of mobile phones or telecommunications. The upgrade rights in the hands of the industry to avoid the dilemma of the software services that are included in the new OS.

The British media The Register quoted Edison Investment Research analyst Richard Windsor as saying that Google has become impatient with the speed of the Android device update and will soon take action to regain control of the firmware upgrade.

The analyst said that Google is likely to include the Android system in its service layer Google Mobile Services, in order to solve the problem of the Android market is too fragmented and lack of organization.

Compared with the latest version of iOS system, it has an installation rate of 87%. On February 1st, the installation rate of each version of Android has been released. The installation rate of Marshmallow, which has been launched for 4 months, is really as low as 1.2%, and it is seriously affected. Google is launching a new software service with the new version of Android, and this problem is getting worse as the new version of Android and the variety of Android phones increase.

Android updates are too slow or lack a unified update mechanism to create security issues. At the end of January, the Dutch consumer group took Samsung to the court on the grounds that the mobile phone update method was too passive and the related information was not transparent enough to endanger the user's security.

Although Google has not publicly stated whether it is willing to withdraw Android upgrade rights, there are indeed signs that Goolge does have a tendency to increase control over the original open product. For example, Google's actions to change the root access (root) of users have become more and more active. For example, at the beginning of this month, it was restricted to use Android's payment service for rooted Android phones.

According to Google statistics (below), the current Android system used by most users is KitKat, which was launched in October 2013, with a usage rate of 35.5, followed by Lollipop launched in November 2014, which accounted for 34.1%, and more than 5 years ago. The launch of Gingerbread still has a 2.7% share.