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For any kind of app targeting westen world (meaning - it's not localised into Hindi, African and Chinese languages), the market share of Lollipop will be below 20%.

According to most app stats I've seen (mine and others), Android 6.0+ is pretty much on 80%+, with Oreo nearing 40% since Samsung started rollouts.

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> For any kind of app targeting westen world (meaning - it's not localised into Hindi, African and Chinese languages), the market share of Lollipop will be below 20%.

Where exactly are you getting this data from? Please do not put random numbers without citing sources.

If you have published apps on Android, the developer console gives you detailed information about YOUR install base.

Couldn't care less about someone in Somalia using Android 4.4 when 80% of my users are on Oreo.

It's based on my personal and my company apps. Obviously I can't give you links to our Play Store / Analytics backends. I guess there's an aggregator somewhere?

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