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No One Is Using Google's Massive Android Update

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Google can't push its OS to users the way Apple can.  Tim Pierce/Flickr

Google launched Android Lollipop, which it called its largest, most ambitious OS update ever, back in November — but no one is using it.

Less than 0.1% of Android devices run Lollipop, according to the company's most recent numbers.  

The problem is that very few phones are capable of upgrading to Lollipop. It's up to the carriers and phone manufacturers to decide when the update rolls out to various phone models.

Though Lollipop hit the Galaxy S5 in Europe, it's still not available on US S5's or on the latest HTC phones. 

With Lollipop, Google introduced Material Design, a bolder, brighter user interface, as well as a bunch of other improvements under the hood.  

Here's the full breakdown of Android OS adoption (Lollipop is not listed because versions with less than 0.1% distribution are not shown): 

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Jillian was most recently an enterprise technology editor based in San Francisco.  She started at Insider as an intern on the technology desk in 2013 and rose to a senior reporter position, covering Alphabet, Facebook, and ecommerce. After three years at the site, she left to spend time freelance writing abroad, before taking reporting positions at CNBC and then at Forbes, where she covered Alphabet, Silicon Valley culture, and artificial intelligence. She returned to Insider in March 2020 and worked on the enterprise technology desk until August 2021.  Jillian graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in magazine journalism and information management and technology.