Apple will keep their best update until 2nd year to please those who bought apple care plus. After that apple don't give a sxxx about their crappy updates. Do 2 update at most, then just use it until it dies or upgrade to a new phone.
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Apple Says iOS 11 is Now Installed on 59% of Devices
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Apple will keep their best update until 2nd year to please those who bought apple care plus. After that apple don't give a sxxx about their crappy updates. Do 2 update at most, then just use it until it dies or upgrade to a new phone.
Wipe the devices and start fresh maybe. I have a four year old iPad that is running ios11 just fine. Never had issues with upgrades.
Planned obsolescence...simple as that.
But no, Tim Cook will tell you it's not about profits.
But no, Tim Cook will tell you it's not about profits.
The fact they are bragging about these numbers tells me they don’t get how buggy iOS 11 is, especially on the iPad where it breaks workflow.
Bragging? The information is simply part of statistics that Apple provides for developers.
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Right, a big conspiracy that so many people have been able to keep secret for so long, and one that basically pisses off the users and would drive them away. It totally makes sense.
"Chinese finger trap update routine"... I love it. You phrased it perfectly.
My wife (Chinese, coincidentally
) is pissed after the update notification that she fell for. She's having issues with her SE now that she confusedly hit the wrong button during a recent nag popup - she's no tech nerd and I imagine her contribution to the 59% was as innocent and ignorant as much of the rest of them. My 7 is running perfectly fine on 10.3.3 and considering my 6-7 hours/day using the Podcast app, I'm in no hurry to change that.
iOS 11 is now installed on 59 percent of iOS devices, according to new statistics Apple shared this week on its App Store support page for developers.
That's up from 52 percent on November 6, indicating iOS 11 adoption has grown just 7 percentage points over the course of the last month.
33 percent of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices continues to run iOS 10, while 8 percent of devices run a version of iOS earlier than iOS 10.
iOS 11 adoption has been slower than iOS 10 adoption. Based on Apple's official App Store numbers, for example, iOS 10 was installed on 54 percent of devices in October, a month after the operating system had been released. Comparatively, iOS 11 was only at 52 percent in November, a month and a half after launch.
Apple has already released several updates for iOS 11, but that doesn't seem to have improved installation rates, especially as many of those updates have been made available to address major bugs found in the operating system.
Over the weekend, Apple released iOS 11.2, the second major update to iOS 11. iOS 11.2 introduced Apple Pay Cash in the United States, but the update was released early to fix a date bug that was causing crashes on December 2. As a result, Apple Pay Cash was not initially available and wasn't provided to customers until yesterday.
With Apple Pay Cash now available, though, customers who have been reluctant to upgrade may install the iOS 11.2 update to access the new feature, so it's possible we'll start seeing improved installation rates in Apple's next App Store support page update.
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The more important stat should be that 58% of people are having issues with their iOS .. still on 10.3.3 here, I refuse to "upgrade" until all the bugs are worked out which looks like it will be in the month of Nevuary... really surprised that number increased this year from last year, I learned my lesson a couple years ago, never again.. i'll be interested to see what that number is next year
So do I have the one defective iPhone that's running iOS 11 just fine?
Things that are compatible with iOS 10 will be fine with iOS 11 so that would still get the vast majority.
After putting up with a half-baked iOS 11, I can say with 100% certainty that I will absolutely not upgrade to iOS 12 next year until it has been out at least 6 months. Not a threat, not a joke, I'm not putting up with this kind of crappy product again.
Ipad pro 12.9 is laggy on 11.2, sometimes doesn’t register finger pressure. I close apps and that seems to help. I would install from scratch but I have a game that would have it’s score reset to 0. The 2 iphone se s seem to be doing fine on 11.2
If my iPhone X would run on iOS 6, I would do it RIGHT NOW!