Nearly 300 Million Devices Running iOS 6, 60% of All iOS Devices Ever

I'm not upgrading my iPhone 4 from iOS 5. It's slow enough as it is.

I wish I knew a way to update my sister's iPhone to iOS 5 rather than 6. Apparently some of her apps have stopped working - I presume that she updated them. Pretty stupid, the App Store allowing an app to update itself (be updated?) on a system (iOS 4) to a version which won't work.

I've had a gutful of iOS. So friggin hard to do stuff, errors, etc...

yay Apple !!!

(What took you guys soo long)

AppleScruff1 said:

It gives me goose bumps and makes me feel warm and tingly inside.

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Of course, that's the only way you could write something negative

thasan said:

Of course, that's the only way you could write something negative

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Or you could have a sense of humor and laugh. And I'm sure if I really wanted to be negative I could have come up with something much better.

Dr McKay said:

Same happens on Android and Windows Phone, you get a notification that a system update is available, you tap it and update.

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Since when? I had a Samsung galaxy S2 for nearly a year and never got any OS update in it, neither any notification to do it. But maybe that is a Jelly bean only.

BvizioN said:

Since when? I had a Samsung galaxy S2 for nearly a year and never got any OS update in it, neither any notification to do it. But maybe that is a Jelly bean only.

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umm... jelly bean. Why do Google's naming gotta be so tempting.

Tech198 said:

umm... jelly bean. Why do Google's naming gotta be so tempting.

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Indeed. Now only if the OS or the devices running it were so tempting for me to..

sazivad said:

Yes. Yes, they do.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

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I catch your drift, but…

Emphasis mine. See above.

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It's really quite simple. If you want a high end phone that has the latest features, you buy something like a S3, and it will be supported for quite some time. If you really really always want the latest updates, you buy Nexus. If you don't really care about those features and you're not a heavy user, you buy a midrange phone that obviously won't get updated. It's your own choice.

So comparing iOS6 numbers to JellyBean is like comparing apples to oranges. If you always want the latest updates, you can.

sazivad said:

Yes. Yes, they do.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

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agaytime said:

Android is fragmented.

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You guys are no fun.

Beautyspin said:

At the beginning - it was the number of activations. Then it became the number the Apps, then it became the total number of devices with the OS, then the total APP downloads.. Apple was always leading and Android kept beating them..

Now we have fragmentation and web traffic and profit - Three metrics where Apple leads. Any bets on how long they are going to do that (the profit thing looks like a thing of past as rumours of a cheap iphone and end of career subsidies float. Already Nexus 7 forced iPad mini which has the least GM). The Stock price is tanking like no tomorrow.. It is tough to be an apple fanboy these days..

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And yet you are doing the same thing you are accusing others of by mentioning the stock price- , what does that have to do with iOS vs Android? Sounds like a cop out because Apple is still selling record numbers of devices. I bet HTC stock never crosses your mind.

If you have a valid reason as to why actual usage of a device isn't important, but only raw sales of crap is, I'd like to hear it. BTW if you want to see the negative effect of Android fragmentation in motion, check out third party hardware. iOS still has a huge lead here even though Apple uses big scary proprietary ports on their devices. (Audio devices, home automation devices, innovative cases, various other gadgets). All of these vendors can't be that stupid- they're supporting the most important and easiest target market first (or in many cases, only).

hello12 said:

IOs 6 is already the best OS for a phone. But iOS 7 needs to be revolutionary (by that I mean introduce a lot of the features users are dying to have). I hope they listen.

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The features that some (not most) users are dying to have simply aren't 'revolutionary' in the first place and would therefore be no more than pointless tinkering and change for its own sake.

Until such a time that there actually is a revolutionary reason to change things up, most likely the result of a hardware advancement, this is not going to happen.

So the children clamouring for change will be disappointed and continue with their whining here, or, will simply jailbreak so they too can have all the distracting and confusing interface crap they could have have had if they'd simply bought an Android phone in the first place. Meanwhile the adults will be happy they have a phone that functions perfectly, because they just don't feel the need to either obsess over or play with their phone all the damn time.

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wonder how many of those devices sold are out of commission now (ipod touches replaced with iphones, iphone 3g, 3gs that are not used anymore etc). It would be interesting so see how much electronic waste these things are generating

r2shyyou said:

And people say Android is fragmented!?!

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And it is. Less than 20% of android users are running the latest update, mainly because OEM's don't push the updates out, as they want you to buy another device. Sad really. The users and the OS I mean. Sucks to be them I guess.

hello12 said:

IOs 6 is already the best OS for a phone. But iOS 7 needs to be revolutionary (by that I mean introduce a lot of the features users are dying to have). I hope they listen.

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No it’s not. It’s a freaking nightmare. I regret updating it every day.
Apple is pushing and focusing on all crap I would never use.
1. Siri – inaccurate and totally useless.
2. Facebook – useless.
3. Twitter – Useless.
4. Maps- Useless and Siri uses it instead of the Google one I downloaded. I also can’t click on and address and be taken to it like I use to in iOS5.
5. Passbook – Useless. That and it will get hacked and people will me loading it up with fake movie passes and stuff.

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In fact iOS6 is just iOS4 only broken.
Give me useful stuff like a better app switcher and themes so I can change those ****** looking icons.

ncaissie said:

No it’s not. It’s a freaking nightmare. I regret updating it every day.
Apple is pushing and focusing on all crap I would never use.
1. Siri – inaccurate and totally useless.
2. Facebook – useless.
3. Twitter – Useless.
4. Maps- Useless and Siri uses it instead of the Google one I downloaded. I also can’t click on and address and be taken to it like I use to in iOS5.
5. Passbook – Useless. That and it will get hacked and people will me loading it up with fake movie passes and stuff.

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Sorry you're not happy, but I, for one, do not find Siri useless. I frequently use it to good effect. I don't care about Facebook and Twitter either, but it's not like their integration has hurt my use of the system. I know many people have problems with Apple Maps, but again, for me it's far ahead of Google maps. It all comes down to a matter of perspective. At least with Apple, I'm reasonably confident they recognize the problems and will work to improve the experience for users. That is a far too rare attitude in the technology industry.

I really don't get why so many people are saying Apple has to do something revolutionary with the next iOS. Sure, it'd be nice, but sales don't seem to be saying that the general public needs "revolutionary". Maybe they just want solid, reliable, and useable technology? Apple should come out with "revolutionary" when it has obvious benefit to the majority of users, and after they have refined it to a degree that's competitive with the current iOS. It would be a disaster if they succumbed to the whims of the stock market instead of stepping back and focusing on quality.

BvizioN said:

Since when? I had a Samsung galaxy S2 for nearly a year and never got any OS update in it, neither any notification to do it. But maybe that is a Jelly bean only.

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tooloud10 said:

Nope, not on my S2 running Gingerbread. I know there's an ICS update available for it--even approved by my carrier--but I can click the Check for Update button all day long and I'll never get it. It's just the same old sloppy OS...

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Well I only began using Android on version 4.2 so I don't know if earlier Android versions did. However OTA updates are a fairly recent thing to iOS. If you had a version earlier than that you would never know there was an update unless you plugged into iTunes and did it there, have you tried plugging it in and checking Samsung's own software?

I own a Nexus 7 tablet and a Nexus 4, every time a system update for Android gets released I get a notification alerting me.


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ncaissie said:

No it’s not. It’s a freaking nightmare. I regret updating it every day.
Apple is pushing and focusing on all crap I would never use.
1. Siri – inaccurate and totally useless.
2. Facebook – useless.
3. Twitter – Useless.
4. Maps- Useless and Siri uses it instead of the Google one I downloaded. I also can’t click on and address and be taken to it like I use to in iOS5.
5. Passbook – Useless. That and it will get hacked and people will me loading it up with fake movie passes and stuff.

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In fact iOS6 is just iOS4 only broken.
Give me useful stuff like a better app switcher and themes so I can change those ****** looking icons.

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I use all these features and they are not useless.

Edit: so you want themes, please tell me how this is useful?

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ravenstar said:

Sorry you're not happy, but I, for one, do not find Siri useless. I frequently use it to good effect. I don't care about Facebook and Twitter either, but it's not like their integration has hurt my use of the system. I know many people have problems with Apple Maps, but again, for me it's far ahead of Google maps. It all comes down to a matter of perspective. At least with Apple, I'm reasonably confident they recognize the problems and will work to improve the experience for users. That is a far too rare attitude in the technology industry.

I really don't get why so many people are saying Apple has to do something revolutionary with the next iOS. Sure, it'd be nice, but sales don't seem to be saying that the general public needs "revolutionary". Maybe they just want solid, reliable, and useable technology? Apple should come out with "revolutionary" when it has obvious benefit to the majority of users, and after they have refined it to a degree that's competitive with the current iOS. It would be a disaster if they succumbed to the whims of the stock market instead of stepping back and focusing on quality.

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The one thing I like about iOS is it is stable and does not change every update.

ravenstar said:

Sorry you're not happy, but I, for one, do not find Siri useless. I frequently use it to good effect. I don't care about Facebook and Twitter either, but it's not like their integration has hurt my use of the system. I know many people have problems with Apple Maps, but again, for me it's far ahead of Google maps. It all comes down to a matter of perspective. At least with Apple, I'm reasonably confident they recognize the problems and will work to improve the experience for users. That is a far too rare attitude in the technology industry.

I really don't get why so many people are saying Apple has to do something revolutionary with the next iOS. Sure, it'd be nice, but sales don't seem to be saying that the general public needs "revolutionary". Maybe they just want solid, reliable, and useable technology? Apple should come out with "revolutionary" when it has obvious benefit to the majority of users, and after they have refined it to a degree that's competitive with the current iOS. It would be a disaster if they succumbed to the whims of the stock market instead of stepping back and focusing on quality.

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Sorry to be the barer of bad news but yes it does. My entire point is that Apple is spending way to much time and money on Facebook and Twitter when they could be using it to catch up to android.
Hell they even let Blackberry pass them!

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spazzcat said:

I use all these features and they are not useless.

Edit: so you want themes, please tell me how this is useful?

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The one thing I like about iOS is it is stable and does not change every update.

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Themes are useful because they make me enjoy looking at my phone/ipad/ipod while I use them. Why allow wallpapers if you think they are so useless?

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ravenstar said:

Sorry you're not happy, but I, for one, do not find Siri useless. I frequently use it to good effect. I don't care about Facebook and Twitter either, but it's not like their integration has hurt my use of the system. I know many people have problems with Apple Maps, but again, for me it's far ahead of Google maps. It all comes down to a matter of perspective. At least with Apple, I'm reasonably confident they recognize the problems and will work to improve the experience for users. That is a far too rare attitude in the technology industry.

I really don't get why so many people are saying Apple has to do something revolutionary with the next iOS. Sure, it'd be nice, but sales don't seem to be saying that the general public needs "revolutionary". Maybe they just want solid, reliable, and useable technology? Apple should come out with "revolutionary" when it has obvious benefit to the majority of users, and after they have refined it to a degree that's competitive with the current iOS. It would be a disaster if they succumbed to the whims of the stock market instead of stepping back and focusing on quality.

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How so? The last 6.1 update has 4 things in it that are irrelevant to 90% of the users. .1 is a big update. Did it fix the maps for the other 98% of the planet? Nope. Did it make Siri work like it should? Nope Siri can do some things but not most of the things they say it does.

Over 300,000,000 actively used iDevices, that's a LOT of users!

I wonder what the total number of active devices is? I'm sure Apple can track this...

Would love to know the number of ACTIVE devices that are on iOS6.

The 60% of all devices ever sold takes into account all the original iPhones, iPhone 3G, 1st gen iPod Touches that are currently sitting in landfills.

Active device percentage must be what...90...95%?

phillipduran said:

They probably just cant find the right download link, for the right provider, for the right version of phone they are using and after they confirmed that the version in question is approved by the various providers of cell service.

Man, I love this Open OS stuff!

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bu bu i can root and flash to the new software !! all i gotta do is go look all over the internet and find a stable build for my phone and then see if every feature works like the real thing!

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ncaissie said:

Sorry to be the barer of bad news but yes it does. My entire point is that Apple is spending way to much time and money on Facebook and Twitter when they could be using it to catch up to android.
Hell they even let Blackberry pass them!

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Themes are useful because they make me enjoy looking at my phone/ipad/ipod while I use them. Why allow wallpapers if you think they are so useless?

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How so? The last 6.1 update has 4 things in it that are irrelevant to 90% of the users. .1 is a big update. Did it fix the maps for the other 98% of the planet? Nope. Did it make Siri work like it should? Nope Siri can do some things but not most of the things they say it does.

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first of all Siri actually works great for me as well, very responsive and accurate in hearing my text. as for the Maps fiasco, there are PLENTY of fantastic alternatives on the App store including Google Maps so what does it matter anyway. 6.1 was a welcome upgrade for my i5 as it improved performance and improved my wifi as well. i also think iOS 7 is going to be a really good OS update to iOS

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Dr McKay said:

Well I only began using Android on version 4.2 so I don't know if earlier Android versions did. However OTA updates are a fairly recent thing to iOS. If you had a version earlier than that you would never know there was an update unless you plugged into iTunes and did it there, have you tried plugging it in and checking Samsung's own software?

I own a Nexus 7 tablet and a Nexus 4, every time a system update for Android gets released I get a notification alerting me.

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(Obviously not a screenshot from my phone but this is what I got)

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Owning a Nexus phone is defitnetly the best experience for Android... any other android smartphone is just terrible because they take months before the newest OS even reaches to their phones.

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aggri1 said:

I'm not upgrading my iPhone 4 from iOS 5. It's slow enough as it is.

I wish I knew a way to update my sister's iPhone to iOS 5 rather than 6. Apparently some of her apps have stopped working - I presume that she updated them. Pretty stupid, the App Store allowing an app to update itself (be updated?) on a system (iOS 4) to a version which won't work.

I've had a gutful of iOS. So friggin hard to do stuff, errors, etc...

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why dont you update to iOS 6.1? it makes my brothers iPhone 4 as fast as its ever been and you can update your apps to the latest OS. doesnt make sense to stay behind on 5.1... every aspect of iOS 6 is better, better Safari, more apps, more compatible apps, smoother better performance... doesnt make sense to me

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ncaissie said:

No it’s not. It’s a freaking nightmare. I regret updating it every day.
Apple is pushing and focusing on all crap I would never use.
1. Siri – inaccurate and totally useless.
2. Facebook – useless.
3. Twitter – Useless.
4. Maps- Useless and Siri uses it instead of the Google one I downloaded. I also can’t click on and address and be taken to it like I use to in iOS5.
5. Passbook – Useless. That and it will get hacked and people will me loading it up with fake movie passes and stuff.

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In fact iOS6 is just iOS4 only broken.
Give me useful stuff like a better app switcher and themes so I can change those ****** looking icons.

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yeah because the icons on Android look any better.. right iOS definetly has the best app icon artwork by far they look like **** on Android tbh

Fragmentation I would imagine is more of an issue for developers than it is for most end users whether you're talking about iOS or Android.

For one - many people buy phones for the functionality they HAVE not for what they MIGHT have in the future.

Second - most of the key apps people enjoy will have developers who make their apps work - regardless. So the onus is on the developer (and the headache). The end user, mostly, wouldn't feel that "pain."

Oh - and it's great "fodder" for forums like this as a discussion point for clickbait.

ncaissie said:

The last 6.1 update has 4 things in it that are irrelevant to 90% of users.

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Interesting claims. Source?

AppleScruff1 said:

Or you could have a sense of humor and laugh. And I'm sure if I really wanted to be negative I could have come up with something much better.

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) well, i always see u posting 'interesting' comments couldnt resist anymore to engage in a conversation

sazivad said:

Interesting claims. Source?

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My own observations among people I know with iphones and ios devices.
What % of people own iphone 5s or LTE enabled ipads? Not many.
And of that not many what % are on those carriers that didn’t support LTE already? Here the 2 big carriers probably sell most if not all the iphones.