Yes, my wife is one of them!
Though she'll be getting a slightly used 4S in a few months
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iOS 7 Adoption Hits 90% Ten Months After Release
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Yes, my wife is one of them!
Though she'll be getting a slightly used 4S in a few months
iOS is great and bad at the same time. It's great because my wife's iPhone 5 will get updated and that leaves me her upgrade. She does not care too much about new hardware. But it sucks because iOS stinks and I consider it a glorified app launcher for babies (sorry wife). I'm more tech geek and love the hardware choices and features of Android. And I get bored way to easily and don't care for Apple's refresh cycle.
So I'm 50/50. I pretty much know what iPhone 6 and 6s will bring to the table. There will be a few surprises but the experience will feel the same. But for Android anything is possible. That's were my wife's upgrade comes into play or maybe a device that I can buy outright.
So I'm 50/50. I pretty much know what iPhone 6 and 6s will bring to the table. There will be a few surprises but the experience will feel the same. But for Android anything is possible. That's were my wife's upgrade comes into play or maybe a device that I can buy outright.
I'm glad they done this. Some people wouldn't upgrade because of the icons.
Get over yourself, they are bloody icons!
Suppose the numbers are actually 1.6%, 8.6%, and 89.8%. Those all add up to exactly 100%, but when you round each of them to the nearest whole percentage you get 2%, 9%, and 90%, which adds up to 101%.
Edit: damnit, someone else beat me to it.
Probably some old iPads that are sitting in a shelf that still have battery life from last year.
I thought someone would post something like that...
You see, not everyone has the latest hardware, so for some of us upgrading is impossible.
Is this post based on any sort of fact? I doubt it, but I'd be happy to see some proof for all this.Nice try, my friend. Older handsets cannot run the apps smoothly to begin with. So, it's a longer suffering, not a longer enjoyable experience. In addition, the majority of Android developers rarely update their apps in the PlayStore.
Consumer error.
Lack of research on the product on your part resulted in your disappointment.
I've had the iPhone 3GS from release 2009 until September of 2013. It was great, and the last several months, many people would ask me "what phone is that?" I still bring it out to use sometimes, without the SIM card. Still jailbroken, still downloads apps.
The article notes that the survey was measured through the App Store, running a week ending on July 13th. So this chart is based entirely on devices that have been online and visited the App Store between July 6th - July 13th.
My own iPad 2 is on 6.1, while my brother's 1st gen iPad is on iOS 5, it's last supported version. We still use it daily. Email, youtube, safari, notes, and playing games. It's not "broken".
Then you are REALLY far behind. Like more than 5 years.
The only iOS hardware kicked off for iOS 7 was the iPod Touch 4th gen and iPhone 3GS. Potentially this year is the iPhone 4 because it doesn't have a minimum A5 processor.
As for Macs, my White Plastic MacBook from 2009 will make the cut to Yosemitie... That's a full SIX YEARS of latest hardware support
Apple is pretty generous. Other Computer MANUFACTURERS and device MANUFACTURERS do not release and support OS upgrades outside the original one year warranty period... Like a tiny number of them....
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I thought someone would post something like that...
You see, not everyone has the latest hardware, so for some of us upgrading is impossible.
iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4 users.., I have a 3GS that is on iOS 6 and gets app updates every day. Many developers still support ios6. It's not all terrible out-to-get-you. Stuff. The phone is 4 years old and I bought it when it was already the discount model.
I think you've simplified the entire OS down a little too much.
I keep hearing people say that "I can do whatever I want on android". However, "whatever" doesn't mean they will rewrite the kernel or redesign androids with their own UI, or make another set of networking protocol. "Whatever" usually means customization and for most people, they only customize their phone when they first bought it and maybe a little more after that. They don't go and change the androids entire look everyday. Most of the time, they just open an app and use it and put it back in their pockets after they're done. So yeah, both androids and iOS can be simplified down to be app launchers for babies, but if you want hardcore, both iOS can be whatever you want, it's not just androids. In addition, androids still needs to be rooted to do anything hardcore. Once ios is jailbroken, there's no telling what it can do.
One of my favorite things to do is go boot up one of my 5-7 year old macs and re-discover how usable the thing still is. The usable life on these machines is so lengthy, its always a bit of a surprise when they finally stop supporting them, because its still working fine.
For my workflow, that is.
Great post.
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Well said and Good point. Users have to be smart also.
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I thought someone would post something like that...
You see, not everyone has the latest hardware, so for some of us upgrading is impossible.
Impossible? I figure that priority has something to do with this.
Two things. First, iOS 7 is so skeuomorphic they had to introduce a setting to turn off some of those features so people would stop getting sick. Second, sheep? Really?
iPad purchased on release day 2010 is still in use in our household. Will be good for another ten years.
My iPhone was a day one upgrade to iOS 7, but my ipad two will remain on iOS 6 until it dies. I don't like the design of iOS 7 at all, but on my iPhone, I was willing to put up with it for the functionality improvements. Since I just use my ipad for streaming video, reading books, and looking at photos - none of which got better in iOS 7 - I'll keep the design I like and the speed/stability of iOS 6.
Nope, when Steve sold me this iPad, there was no indication that I was to get exactly 1 iOS upgrade on this phenomenal device hat does everything so much better than a netbook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBhYxj2SvRI
No amount of research on my side would have made this fact evident, because it is only hindsight that allows you to lay the blame on me
, FANBOY