“If you have a newer iOS device and you haven’t yet upgraded to iOS 11, you should know that you’re in an ever-dwindling group,” Mike Wehner reports for BGR. “Apple’s iPhone 8 (and the yet-to-be-launch iPhone X) come with iOS 11 pre-installed, but as with all iOS update rollouts, iOS 11 is also being installed on older devices at a brisk pace. The current percentage of iOS 11 users is nearly 25%, and since the update has only been available for about a week, that’s obviously an incredible feat.”
“The year-old Android Nougat has less than 16% adoption among Android devices,” Wehner reports. “Android Marshmallow, now roughly two years old, boasts double the number of users at 32.2%, while Lollipop comes in at 28.8%.”
“In fact, if you want to find an Android version that has a comparable percentage of adopters to Nougat you’ll have to look as far back as Android Kitkat, which has a little over 15% share,” Wehner reports. “That’s a whole lot of fragmentation.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We don’t Google’s slapdash morass “Fragmandroid” for nothin’.
Since my personal data (name, phone, email, birthdate, address, etc.) may exist on an Android phone and may be obtained by hackers through one of their MANY security issues, “Friends don’t let friends use Android”.
Over 99% of all current mobile malware targets Android. Less than 1% targets Windows phones, Blackberry, and iOS – Combined.
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+malware+99