Android 5.0 Lollipop is Finally on the Market Share Map

[[Coi] Mr.CLuBBeR]

The latest version of Android climbs to a 1.6 percent share

Google released Android 5.0 Lollipop to the public on November 3. 2014, but in the three months that have passed since then, it never registered a blip on the Android Developers Dashboard, until now. That's because Google doesn't list any versions with less than a 0.1 percent distribution. Within the last few days, however, Android 5.0 has gone from virtually non-existent to a 1.6 percent share.
That's still not much, but at least it's a start. I also expect to see that number grow somewhat steadily in the coming weeks and months -- HTC is working on doling out Lollipop to its One M7 and M8 devices in the U.S., the Verizon Galaxy S5 is supposed to unwrap the latest build today, and several other phone models should be receiving updates fairly soon as well.
As it stands, Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.x to 4.3) is the most popular major version with a collective 44.5 percent share, followed by KitKat, which is installed on 39.7 percent of all Android devices, at least as recorded by Google.
Out of all versions of Android, only Lollipop and KitKat gained ground compared to last month, increasing 1.6 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively.
Google gathers its market share data through the Google Play Store, so these numbers don't paint a perfect picture, though they do give a rough idea of the level for fragmentation.
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