- Companies with a fleet of managed Android devices are slowly moving to Android 12, 13, and 14.
- Over a third of managed devices used by businesses are locked down to a single Android app.
How much anxiety do you feel when your phone’s not running its platform’s most recent software? Knowing that there are all these performance updates and security fixes out there that you don’t yet have access to? Android nerds like us fondly remember back when Google regularly shared statics on Android platform distribution, giving us a bird’s eye view not just at who’s running the latest and greatest Android, but how many people out there were still stuck on a version from years and years ago. We still get the occasional update through Android Studio, and now we’re checking out what might be the next most useful point of data after that, with a report on the state of managed devices from Esper.
Esper shares its most recent analysis, looking at how companies in industries like hospitality, education, and retail sales employ Android devices. These could be phones, point-of-sale terminals, or even digital signage. But if it runs Android and it’s part of a company’s device management program, Esper is interested.