Google has released the latest of its monthly Android version distribution charts, and for the first time Android 2.3 Gingerbread is present on over half of all Android devices. A milestone, to be sure.
We also get a look at the end success rate of Honeycomb (a tablet-only version of Android), which achieved a mere 2.5% piece of the Android pie since the first Honeycomb device release back in February. Android 1.5 and 1.6 (Cupcake and Donut) have continued their march toward extinction, commanding only 2.1% of the Android population total. Android 2.2 has remained relatively steady at 35%, but is clearly on the downtrend.
Of course, now that Ice Cream Sandwich's source code has been made available, the inevitable will occur, and Gingerbread will slowly begin its own fall into irrelevancy. It's a cycle that Android users are all too familiar with, and it's undoubtedly a love-hate relationship for some.
Like it or not, that's the way it is in the world of Android - The King is dead. Long live the King.