The phone I had, had just 1 upgrade ever!! It was an absolute nightmare to do the upgrade then. I was looking at the apps available and a good number of them didn't work with my phone.
After 2 years I dumped it for a different phone.
Wow.
I just looked and found that most Android users — according to Swordmakers chart — are running a version of the OS that came out 22 months ago (JellyBean 4.3) at the latest, if not far older.
Gosh sakes. Everyone who’s handed me their Android phone to see if I can take a look and help them VPN to our network or connect to our corporate email system always has a fairly new whiz bang Android phone but is running a pretty old version of Android OS.
Last fall, we had to rule out some older versions of Android from our network because of the SSLv3 (’POODLE’) vulnerability with ‘Bring Your Own Device’ because those old versions couldn’t be made compliant with our security model unless they could upgrade. It was like 70% of Android users in our enterprise were restricted from connecting their Android device inside our network sphere. iPhone/iPad users unaffected. Shortly thereafter, corporate gave a bunch of affected users new Android phones...