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1. W3zzy+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-07-27 15:46:06
It's old stats and - coming from Android authority - the response group is literate when it comes to Android phones but from their 2020 survey 35% claimed to have auto updates of.

https://www.androidauthority.com/auto-update-apps-google-pla...

Then, on a worldwide scale, you can see that a lot of people are running unsupported Android versions.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android

Yes, there is no guarantee they a web app is more secure or up to date but tge likelyhood is far greater as it's a developer's responsibility and not the end consumer.

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2. distan+Vz3[view] [source] 2025-07-28 21:29:57
>>W3zzy+(OP)
To get any relevant number we'd have to check some popular app and see the versions their active users are running. That would give a good estimate of the number of people without auto updates.

Sounds like it would be higher than I expect, but I still claim it can not be more than fractions of a percent. Actively toggling a setting like is definitely esoteric behaviour even for a power user, never mind the large masses of smartphone users.

Unsupported Android version is not related to old app versions, Google Play will still work.

I do grant that web is more likely to be up to date than an app. Me claiming that it depends on the developer was just being pedantic: technically it depends on the developers and their release practices, but likely it's the web version that is more up to date.

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