It is almost four  months since Lollipop was launched. So you might expect it to have a noticeable market share by now. This is not the case.

As the latest chart of Android versions shows, as of the beginning of February Lollipop has just a 1.6% share.

Looking at the other versions KitKat, which had a share of 30.2% at the end of 2014, has put on almost 10% since then, which is a sizable increase. All other versions have shrunk a bit and Lollipop has been added to the table for the first time.

  Data collected during a 7-day period ending on February 2, 2015. 
  Any versions with less than 0.1% distribution are not shown.

Android watchers had been surprised not to see Lollipop appear in the weekly report on Android Developer before now.

Even though new Android versions usually make a slow start - for example we reported KitKat on Fewer Than 2 Percent Of Androids a year ago, this idea that Lollipop was on fewer than 0.1% was almost unthinkable. 

Or was it?  

As Mike James pointed out at the end of 2014:

This new flat version of the OS - New Android L Goes Flat - didn't quite go according to plan because it was buggy. At the end of the year very few people were actually using Android L and a full rollout probably won't happen until early in 2015. 

The roll out did begin last month - but having updated one of my Android tablets I'm not going to update any more of my Androids on the grounds that Lollipop makes them noticebly slower and less responsive. A decimal point update to Lollipop is being rolled out in some regions - let's hope that it has added some speed.

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