Google Chrome 41 for Android Brings Pull-Down Page Refresh and More
Google Chrome 41 for Android Brings Pull-Down Page Refresh and More
Earlier this month, Google had announced that Chrome 42 will be the last update for devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The Chrome 42 release is slated for mid-April. Alongside, the search giant also revealed that Google Chrome 43 can be expected to be released by the end of May.
Google’s Aurimas Lutikas, Software Engineer, in a blog post, explained that the number of Chrome users running Ice Cream Sandwich has dropped by 30 percent and it is hard for the team to support an older Android version while also building new version for devices running updated Android.
To put some context, Google’s latest Android version distribution numbers suggested that Android 4.0.x or Ice Cream Sandwich was running on just 5.9 percent of devices, dropping from 6.4 percent the previous month. It’s a clear indicator that the usage of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has dropped significantly.