https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/google-launches-android-9-pie.html > Google's latest version of its Android smartphone software will start rolling out to Pixel phones today. > Android is by far the most popular smartphone software in the world, with roughly 80 percent market share, according to Statista. However, that includes open-source derivatives of Android that have been customized heavily and include few or no links to Google services, and even phones that have the Google-approved version of Android are not updated right away. As a result, few people will actually be able to download the software today.