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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by nostrademons on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:09PM (#11346817)
KitKat was the first version to ship with Chrome as the default browser, but IIRC it didn't replace the system webview or become auto-updating until Lollipop. Wikipedia shows 70% of Android users on KitKat+, and about 35% on Lollipop+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#/media...

I dunno what Samsung ships with, when I was still doing a bunch of mobile web work (early 2014) they used a forked version of Android Browser that was really terrible. Hopefully they've replaced it with something saner. A lot of recent Samsung devices have dropped Android entirely for Tizen, though.

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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by jorgecastillo on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:35PM (#11347041)
I think this is more accurate:

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by nostrademons on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:46PM (#11347135)
Probably yes, although they seem to show basically the same numbers. I think the Wikipedia graph comes from someone scraping the official dashboard periodically; the text of the Wikipedia article indicates that the data source is Google Play Store and excludes non-Google forks.
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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by douche on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:21PM (#11346928)
My Samsung S4 came preinstalled with some off-brand default browser that was worse than terrible. Hopefully they have gotten their act together by the time I'm due for an upgrade this fall.
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Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS by Grishnakh on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:26PM (#11347448)
Who cares what it came preinstalled with? My S4 was automatically updated to Android 5.1 and comes with all the stuff that 5.1 normally comes with. I also installed Firefox as my default browser there.

Why bother to upgrade to another phone? The newer phones (except the S5) aren't any better. I love my S4. The only thing I'd bother upgrading to is an S5, since it's waterproof, and still has a removable battery.

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