Google routinely gives monthly numbers breaking out the adoption of various versions of Android, but the company has now changed the way it calculates those numbers — providing a distinctly different portrait of the Android ecosystem in the process. As outlined on the Android Developers site, Google now uses the data collected when users visit the Google Play Store; under the previous system, any check-in to the store by the device would have been incorporated into the results, user-generated or not. The new system went into effect starting with this month's results.
The change essentially skews the results towards those users who are actively visiting the Play Store. Google says as much on the page itself, noting that the new system...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/2/4176532/google-changes-how-it-measures-android-version-adoption-sees-uptick
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