New Android devices must be in the new version: a diktat from Google

"From February 2014, Google will no longer approve the distribution of GMS on new Android products that use older versions of the platform. Each version of the platform will be a 'window of approval GMS' which normally closes nine months after the public availability of the next Android version. (In other words, we all have nine months for new products in the new version of the platform after its public launch) "
It would be a memo from Google that would have been sent to at least one major manufacturer in the industry of mobile phones. There is also mentioned that this new policy will benefit the consumer. Here, it is assumed that GMS refers to Google Mobile Service, which includes services such as Google Now, Google Play Store or Google Maps.

It seems that Google has a bit tired of the monthly statistics of the fragmentation of its mobile OS. 's latest figures (data collected on Play Store during the 7 days preceding February 4) showed that 1.8% of active terminals were under Kit Kat, the most recent version. Jelly Bean is still the most dominant version, with 60.7% share, followed by Gingerbread which has a 20% share in the kingdom of Google.

Therefore if this memo is authentic, we can assume that Google wants all new terminals, whether input or medium range, are under KitKat (or something more recent). And we can understand that since this latest version was optimized for low resource consumption.

For its development, Google has expressly used a dual core smartphone with only 512 Mb of RAM. Indeed, after correcting the imperfections in the development of Android Jelly Bean, he would now put an end to this highly fragmented.

Although there was no way to verify if it is a fake or not, we can say that it has some meaning.