For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread

First time accepted submitter brocket66 writes with this excerpt from BGR: "Three major revisions of Google's Android operating system have launched since the company released Android 2.3 more than 21 months ago in December 2010, but Gingerbread is still the most widely used version of Android by a wide margin. A study conducted early this year by graphic designer Chris Sauve projected that based on Android adoption trends up to that point, Android 2.3 Gingerbread would be the dominant version of Android in 2012 despite the fact that Android 3.0 Honeycomb and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich had already been released. Now, as the fourth quarter of 2012 approaches, data from Google's Android version distribution tracker confirms once again that those projections were accurate."

Re:So?

[Tapewolf]

Oh please. It's the developer's fault that most people don't want to spend $500 for a phone?

Yes. Doom got people buying £500 PCs, so clearly they aren't trying hard enough ;-)

These people are using 21 month old software!?

[John Hasler]

Amazing! That's almost two years!! How can they stand to use anything so ancient?