How Lollipop 5.0 Revamps Android Completely

Android 5.0 Lollipop brings an absolutely new era for the OS, which is targeted to unify the Android experience on all the devices, and built for business use. Google has rebuilt Android Lollipop keeping future in mind. They have laid a robust base for device makers as well as developers to take this platform to new heights, and power the next generation of wearables, smartphones and tablets.

Lollipop will be available for most of the Motorola, LG, and Nexus-branded devices, which is in the hands of device manufacturers like HTC and Samsung for testing purpose and launch in coming months. Let’s have a look at the enhancements that make Android Lollipop most adaptable and substantial.  

Streamlined setup

Google has simplified device setup, which is an appreciable improvement. If connected to a cellular network or Wi-Fi, this Android device will automatically download available updates without waiting until the setup procedure is done as in versions past. Android Lollipop’s setup procedure supports NFC transfer that allows the user to tap the previous NFC-enable device to your Android device to share data.

The most noticeable improvement to the setup procedure is capability to restore the device from a particular backup, instead of automatically downloading apps and setting affiliated with Google profile.  

Material Design: Absolutely brand new look

Lollipop presents an absolute and suitable visual service of Android UI: Material Design. The new look and feel is fluid, vibrant, and cohesive than the older versions. Its effect can be felt throughout the complete OS, from the new navigational buttons, re-imagined menus to Google’s portfolio of stock applications.

Android 5.0 Lollipop: App Drawer

This new and enhanced app drawer is now connected to the overall Android experience. This the first time after Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich that Android app drawer has been given a fresh look.  

ART: Complete modification of Android

The modified log of Lollipop includes many under-the-hood tweaks, and the one which is most important is an overhaul of core architecture of Android with Android Run Time (ART) taking the place of Dalvik VM. This shift is making Android powerful and faster. Dalvik used to compile and process the applications whenever they are open, ART translates an application’s source code at initial installation stage, and it performs ahead-of-time processing.

Android Lollipop is the very first version with 64-bit support, which is expected to bring desktop-class CPU performance to the OS.

The core apps of Android are also 64-bit-native now, as is the Java engine on which many third party apps are built. Users won’t feel the difference immediately, but developers will. It will also allow device manufacturers to include some efficient processors, RAM, and GPUs.

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Roku Market Value and Sales for 2014

Below are the statistics highlighting Roku’s Market Value and Sales for the year 2014.

Feb 2014   -  Here’s are some interesting details about Roku’s usage :

• Streaming on Roku devices grew by 70% in 2013 to 1.7 billion hours for the year.
• Average Roku player streams 13 hours a week although 25% of roku players stream even 35 hours per week .
• Roku doubled the number of channels in the past year – currently at more than 1,200.
• Roku added YouTube, Showtime, WatchESPN, TWC TV, AOL, FOX NOW, Watch Disney Channel.
• Roku has 20 Roku Ready partners right now and will likely certify 125 devices this year.

April 2014 -  

• Roku Sales Hit 5 Million Units, Thanks to Amazon, Netflix .
• Roku, which essentially sells a black box the size of a hockey puck that connects to late-model TVs, also appears to be picking up steam.
• In the first 2½ years since its 2008 launch, it was selling about 31,000 devices a month, on average. Since January 2012, it has been offloading 167,000 a month.

September 25 2014 -

• Roku has sold over 10 million players.
• Roku is announcing that over 10 million of its tiny media streamers have sold, dating back to when they were first introduced in 2008. That's good news, and shows sales are continuing to pick up after it crossed 5 million just last spring and eight million at the beginning of the year.
• Roku released new versions of its devices, making minor improvements to its cheaper models and adding content from M-Go, a video rental and purchase service owned by MediaNaviCo.
• With hundreds of channel-like apps, the company already has much more content than Apple TV, although the absence of iTunes and YouTube are big gaps.
• The competition is getting stronger too. Sales of the Apple TV have exploded along with the iPad and it was up to 20 million at last count, while Google is readying another Android TV attack and Amazon is pushing its own Fire TV media box.
• In response, Roku is expanding by putting its software directly into Smart TVs and using its partnership with Sky TV in the UK to get cheaper hardware on the shelves.

Roku, however, often refers to research that indicates its boxes are used more than rivals' if they're not sold more than them.

Roku noted a study conducted on its that behalf by researcher NPD that found Roku accounted for 37 million hours of video streamed per week, versus Apple TV's 15 million, Chromecast's 12 million, and Amazon Fire TV's at 6 million hours.

The company also said recently Roku players average 48 hours of streamed content a month. That compares to less than 20 hours spent on Facebook, based on Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's disclosure in July that people in the US spend about 40 minutes a day with the social network.

ROKU STATISTICS - 

2014	ROKU	APPLE TV	CHROMECAST
Unit Sales	10 million unit sales since 2008	20 million units in 2007	3.8 million sold
Market Share	28% market share	39% market share	16% market share
Weekly video streamed	37 million hours of video streamed per week	Apple TV at 15 million hours	Chromecast at 12 million hours
Presence	4 countries	Worldwide	19 countries

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