So Many Android Devices. Too Few Updates.

Only 25 percent of Android handsets have Jelly Bean installed, according to developer.android.com. But nearly ten months after its initial release, shouldn't that adoption figure for Google's latest and most secure Android OS be much higher, especially given all the malware now targeting Androids?  Like most things it's complicated.

Unlike the typical PC ecosystem, the mobile ecosystem is much more fractured. In both worlds, you have hardware and OS, but in the mobile world you also have the carrier. Each player has the opportunity to tweak something. So that makes it hard for Google Android to adopt Microsoft's Patch Tuesday model of maintenance and security.

Most PCs have similar hardware, and I'll go so far as to say most PCs run Windows. If you're Microsoft, it is possible to create and test an update or even a full-scale service patch that will work on a vast majority of the Windows systems in the world today. With mobile (yes, even the iPhone) it's not so easy.