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iOS 10 Overtakes iOS 9, Now Installed on 48% of Devices
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You mean those 100,000 iPhones that burned? Because that's how many you'd need to find for us in order to match the disaster that was the Note 7 (based on incidents per devices sold).
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Ssshhh. You're not allowed to say Android gets beaten, spanked, dominated or destroyed in any category.
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McDonald's has an incredible market share. Doesn't mean they make the best burgers.
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4% represent. I'm curious how many devices in the world are still running iOS 6 or earlier.
I had a family member who didn't like iOS 10 / didn't want iOS 10 / thought it was stupid and useless (I agreed), and he insisted I update his phone because the constant notifications drove him crazy. It does happen.
It's just A6 devices and newer, simple as that. So 5, 5C, and iPad 4+.
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They're using a statistical sampling, either based on either website visits or code embedded in popular apps (don't know which or if they're using both). The numbers aren't likely horribly far off for iOS devices that attach to the internet. At some point, Apple may publish some numbers, and those will be based on the billion or so iOS devices that actively contacting Apple each month, and those numbers will be pretty definitive.
The impressive bit to me is the chart here indicates that upwards of 96% of iOS devices in use are running iOS 9 or 10.
Well google makes out handsomely for androids market share. Manufacturers not so much. /otDon't do it people. It will totally pimpify your messages! Be warned!
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And meanwhile Android has an incredible device market share.
Which is better?
If you click through to the source of the chart, the up-to-the-minute numbers say 3.79%. Given Apple said a while back they've passed 1 billion devices contacting them per month (so more than a billion now, but a small fraction are Macs, let's call it a billion-ish iOS devices), that puts us in the neighborhood of 38 million devices running iOS 8 or earlier. If, as a wild guess, half of that was covered by iOS 7 and 8, that'd leave about 19 million for iOS 6 and earlier. Probably quite a few still in use as MP3 players and such.
Cool, thanks for the analysis - that's actually more than I thought. I'm still using mine as a phone haha.
Unless you need to restore.
The way to deal with this is to delete the iOS upgrade file.
Go to Settings -> General -> Storage / iCloud -> Manage Storage (local)
Then delete the large iOS x.x update file.
It won't prompt you again until the next release, I believe, at which point you'll have to repeat. Still beats getting the bloody popup message 3 times per day (always right when you're in the middle of something, too).
Agreed.
Call me Mr. Van Winkle.
Although eventually Apple's policy of crippling RAM in their iOS devices will come to equilibrium (RAM is actually sufficient, and not the bare minimum), so as to make their "forced" upgrade policy superfluous.
I dream of a day the average consumer learns about digital security. I personally like most of the updates to iOS that have happened, preferring to move with the times and not chow down on the 'member berries... But even if you don't like that, please just think about security updates. They are vital. And Apple can't too well be maintaining security patches for every defunct version of iOS out there! It's just not feasible. What Apple does is great for the end user, even if they don't realise - force the most recent version upon people and don't allow them to downgrade to a less secure system because of what they 'member!
Sure you can, when true. Android users here can take it. Unlike the reverse...
They do if what you want is a Big Mac. See Eddie Murphy's Raw bit about that.
Still, regardless of the perception of "quality", more people choose Android. So they either:
A. Don't see the value in iOS devices as worth it
B. Can't afford iOS devices (pricing between equivalent handsets are not as far off as expected, so ymmv).
C. Find Android devices superior for their use-case. (That's me)
It's impossible (aside from anecdotal experience) to know which is the actual case without more data.
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I must be missing something.
Are security updates exclusively attached to mobile OS upgrades? Because I know that is not the case in desktop-land.
If so, that is BS, regardless of the platform.
But we know the truth. It's all an excuse to bring you back, like drug dealers. Not "hatin' the player", just "the game".
PD. I'll take skeuomorphism any day over this playskool flat garbage that has taken over computer UI design, thanks in no small part to post-Jobs Apple.
But it's easy, so it's cheap, I guess.
The ultimate purpose of new, numerical IOS updates: iOS 6, 7, 8, 9 etc etc. is to create a need for new hardware by slowing down the OS w new & questionsably "better" features.
I honestly wonder if there is a secret "throttle setting" in all these OSes & it gets cranked down a bit with each new release.... to slowly and intentionally cripple older devices.
A fast & smooth OS is Apple's nightmare.
I honestly wonder if there is a secret "throttle setting" in all these OSes & it gets cranked down a bit with each new release.... to slowly and intentionally cripple older devices.
A fast & smooth OS is Apple's nightmare.
Or D. There's just a crap-tonne more Android devices than iOS devices, so the odds are that iOS will have a lower share.
Do you remember XP and how that recently got discontinued? That was an OS that's 10 years old, but only 3 or 4 generations of OS old. The generations are what's key - many generations, much more code to keep updated for less and less reason as people upgrade. iOS generations are created yearly (or more frequently, if you want all .x versions downgrade-able too!) so keeping them secure is an unviable option.
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Not in my experience.
I don't think most users "choose" Android. They choose a cheap phone that happens to run Android. There's a difference.
They essentially are for Android since the majority of security exploits end up being low-level and can't be patched by Google Play Services. This is why you're still stuck waiting for the OEM and/or carrier to get a security update, even if the actual update is only a tiny portion of the code.
Google has been trying to fix this by adding more and more functionality (and APIs) into Google Play Services. Then they have the ability to issue fixes to any device with Google Play Services. The downside to this is that Google Play Services is 100% closed source and the more they add to it the less useful AOSP becomes since its development is essentially stalled (it doesn't get all the new stuff from Google - they put it into Google Play Services instead).
Meanwhile on Android
Yes it is sad. I would say the majority of Android users are totally unaware of how outdated their devices really are.
Lol, nice!
Compare Samsung's issue with problems people had with NON Apple knock-off 3rd party chargers!!!
That doesn't seem sleazy & disingenuous at all!
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Apple's planned obsolescence strategy is flawless. It's one cornerstone of Apple's financial Kingdom.
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You're hilarious...
Obviously unaware of how this reflects on you.
Why would it unlock itself? Why would you not put the screen to sleep before putting it back in your pocket?
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Right, "intentionally"...when you hear hoofbeats, think zebras.
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iCloud one?
Ah, now I am so happy I stuck with iOS 8.4 on my iPhone 6. The annoying popups are very infrequent. I would happily update if it was possible to undo the update, or choose the ideal version for the hardware. My last iPhone became slow and glitchy when I updated to a new major iOS version. Not enough to entirely kill it, but enough to be annoying, and I've learnt my lesson, and never again. Now all my iOS devices stay at the major version they originally come with.
Similarly, I updated my 2012 macbook pro to Yosemite, and it is similarly now slow and glitchy at times, and I've learnt my lesson on this too. All future macbook pros will be updated once at most, but never to 2 major versions on macOS. I would like to say never updated, but the current version of VMWare won't run on the old macOS, so I was forced to update. So, I'm guessing a single major version update is probably the sweet spot.