Apple's App Store Usage Numbers Suggest 46% Adoption Rate for iOS 8

[atki81]

The problem I've got is my Gran has an iPad mini 1st Gen and an iPhone 4 of which the latter isn't compatible with iOS 8. It keeps coming up on her iPad to update as it automatically downloaded but she doesn't want to update due to her iPad not being compatible. I'm not upgrading her till the new year to an iPhone 5 when my other halfs contract runs out. How do I get rid of it constantly reminding her to update??? Thanks

 

[wimbly]

Very arrogant attitude. Software developers don't make snarky comments about people with an iPhone 4, they figure out the cost of supporting iOS 7 vs. the cost of not supporting iOS 7 (losing customers and cost to adapt to iOS 8) and make rational decisions based on this.

Imagine my software is used in a company that bought 1,000 iPhone 4 for their users a while ago. These phones work just fine, at least the majority. Do you think they should pay out more than half a million dollars just to please you?

He wasn't being arrogant. He was making a joke.

Whether or not you're going to continue to develop for the 4/4S is down completely to the type of app you're making. I design UI for a lot of smaller mainly e-commerce and e-learning companies. For us a big consideration when designing for Android or older versions of iOS is "are these people likely to actually spend money in the app?" Most of the time the answer is no for anyone who isn't running a current release iPhone (5C - 6 Plus). Android users don't spend money in our apps (and in general) and neither do owners of older iOS hardware because they tend to be poorer or older. For most companies that aren't Spotify or Facebook, designing for the 3GS/4 and scaling up is going to start getting annoying and limiting and so they're going to obviously consider shelving development that far behind soon enough.

 

[Semester]

I didn't bother to upgrade my iPad because it would have been to much of a hassle to delete 5 gigs. It will be replaced soon anyway.

 

[alphaod]

I know a number of people who want to upgrade to iOS 8 (and some still on iOS 6) and their issue is they don't have enough free space and they can't decide what they want to delete.

 

[Kariya]

I know a number of people who want to upgrade to iOS 8 (and some still on iOS 6) and their issue is they don't have enough free space and they can't decide what they want to delete.

Use iTunes.

You won't have to delete anything.

 

[MentalFloss]

That's pretty good for a company that forces OS updates.

If they updates are forced, then how come that so many people here haven't updated yet?

 

[fluchtpunkt]

Possible, but the results would be very skewed at the moment, because anyone who upgraded to iOS 8 would go to the app store to download new versions of all their apps right now, while iOS 7 users wouldn't have any particular reason to go there.

Implying that "As measured by the App Store" (as it is used in apples pie chart) means people have to manually go to the app store. iOS itself contacts the store regularly to ask for available app updates. Apple could use the OS version numbers from these api calls.

 

[BvizioN]

I know a number of people who want to upgrade to iOS 8 (and some still on iOS 6) and their issue is they don't have enough free space and they can't decide what they want to delete.

Solution is to upgrade through iTunes on PC/Mac. No need for extra space to extract the files.

PS: Appears that others have pointed that out too.

 

[Jsameds]

Still on iOS 7 on my iPad and will be until an iOS 8 jailbreak comes out. I find them really horrible to use without Adblock. So many apps/websites are ruined with adverts these days, so it's an essential plugin for me.

 

[X-X]

Real iOS 8 adoption is actually stalling

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_8/from_date:-6,report_unit:day,to_date:0

 

[roadbloc]

screw it, develop for iOS 8. people with iPhone 4's need to upgrade anyways.

Its that sort of thinking that allows Apple to get away with their premature obsoletion of older devices. Why do iPhone 4 users have to buy a new phone just to do exactly what they could do on it before?

I'm not saying Apple should let iOS 8 run on the iPhone 4. I'm saying Apple should support their older versions of iOS for a while instead of ditching it immediately and then slowly discontinuing features on it for no apparent reason other than 'screw you, you should have updated.'

 

[Jsameds]

That's pretty good for a company that forces OS updates.

I wonder how many in this percentage actually chose to download this update. It downloaded uninvited on 3 of my devices.

If it was such a great update Apple wouldn't need to do this ... forced downloads.

Did they actually do this? I remember it was a big issue with iOS 7 but I've not heard any reports of it happening with iOS 8 until I read these two posts.

 

[tigres]

Anyone know if is signing iOS 7 still?
I have to take the iPad mini back to the good side, it's unusable.

 

[iFitzgerald]

I'm still on iOS 7. I'm waiting for more review of iOS 8 on the iPhone 4S to see if I want to upgrade or not. Also might wait until one or two bugs squashing and performance improvement updates are released.

 

[MacFinnley]

it needs to much free storage so I can't update, damnit

 

[wozmatic]

If they updates are forced, then how come that so many people here haven't updated yet?

because it's not compatible with older devices like the iPhone 4

 

[justperry]

Anyone know if is signing iOS 7 still?
I have to take the iPad mini back to the good side, it's unusable.

Yes it is, you can check Here

 

[MentalFloss]

because it's not compatible with older devices like the iPhone 4

No, there are enough people here (including myself) who own compatible devices which they have not yet upgraded. So I don't understand the statement that the upgrade is "forced". Nobody is forcing me to upgrade my iPad 3 for example.

 

[nocturnum]

Cheers for those 5% of Vikings!

These statistics do tell a lot about iPhone/Pad/Pod user base.

 

[LostSoul80]

Did they actually do this? I remember it was a big issue with iOS 7 but I've not heard any reports of it happening with iOS 8 until I read these two posts.

If your device has enough free storage for the update, it gets automatically downloaded to it. You might not see many reports about it because the requirements are relatively demanding, averaging on about 5-6 GB of free space needed for the update process.

 

[tigres]

Yes it is, you can check Here

Ahh, thanks for that linky, bookmarked.

 

[mainstreetmark]

It'd be higher if the 16gig-ers, didn't have to delete a quarter of the information off of their phones to upgrade.

 

[greytmom]

If your device has enough free storage for the update, it gets automatically downloaded to it. You might not see many reports about it because the requirements are relatively demanding, averaging on about 5-6 GB of free space needed for the update process.

What? All my devices had plenty of space. None of them automatically uodated.

 

[RockSpider]

So 46% of "ALL" iPhones out in the world today are running iOS8 are they?

Are they really?

What do you think?

I believe it, but then I believe Santa Claus is real.

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I'd much rather see the figures for how many people are suffering through IOS8, I'll bet it's more than 50%.

 

[Jakewilk]

How does 46% in a week compare with iOS 7's adoption?