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iOS 8 Adoption Rate Hits 72% As Android Lollipop Distribution Reaches 1.6%

Both my iPad Air and iPhone 5S are still running 7.1.2 and even when these 8 bugs keep living on, and the newer apps require 8 and above, I will just keep waiting.
It's just too risky to me to update with all these bugs.

Now granted I know eventually Apple will smooth it out, but am don't want to get frustrated when things don't work. I am no "crash" test dummy!
 
a.gomez said:
talk about beating a dead horse... Nobody cares!, Motorola tried to sell the MotoX on quick updates and it did not help sales.

If you are a developer all you care about is the 4.X and 5.X as a family at this point and that is above 90% of the market.
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Right... Till someone tells us, on this very forum, that Android 5 (that only aliens have) has some super-duper function that IOS 8 has.... Yeah, "no one" cares.

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LordVic said:
not sure about it either. But like all android based devices, security updates would still need to be done by combination of device manufacturer and carrier.

its a big issue that anyone running a non nexus based android device should be aware of. Somteimes security patches can take a long time to get out.

I know when I was on my Note 2, 4.4 came Months after 4.4 was releeased by google itself, and then the 4.4.4 patch for security fix took another 2 months after google released their security fix.

Androids biggest problem isn't the diversity of the versions IMHO, it's the ridiculousness of the hardware makers customization and lengthy time to get those customizations out.

If you've ever ran a nexus device after using a non nexus version of android, it's like night and day. Most people who complain about bad experiences with android itself are usually having that experience because of the 3rd party version of the OS, not because of Android itself
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Right... That's why Nexus sales have fallen right through the floor when they stopped subsidizing (not to mention not so hot value for the price) them this year. People "loving" them so much.
 
iHack13 said:
Typical troll feeding and Android bashing article.

I'm not using an Android phone but there is one thing I can tell you.
If Apple would let me go back to iOS7 I would do so immediately.

But Apple wants to keep showing figures like these while slowing down my device , so that I buy their newest product.
Let's praise them . Yay, Apple. Android sucks and so on and so forth..
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... in a nutshell... Thank you.
 
The problem with my N5 is that it took forever for the OTA update to finally make it to my device. Even with stock devices I am not sure why it took so long.
 
bawbac said:
And how many people reverted back to an older iOS after 8 made their device sluggish & open to security issues.

When the general public can't roll back their FW easily like Android, what can they do but take what has been forced on to them.
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IS it easy to downgrade the OS on Android? I heard that it wasn't.
 
The number that I think would be better to see, and interesting, would be what percentage of devices that have updated to iOS 8 out of the devices that are capable of running iOS 8. I suspect that a lot of those 25% that haven't updated may be older devices that aren't supported on iOS 8, but we can't be sure the way these numbers are presented. And as the years go by, and more and more devices are out there, there's going to be a certain percentage that are older and not able to update. And this year they excluded iPhone 4 I think, right? Which is a big cluster of older devices.
 
iHack13 said:
I'm not using an Android phone but there is one thing I can tell you.
If Apple would let me go back to iOS7 I would do so immediately.
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Same, I keep finding more and more little bugs in iOS 8. They're always with really basic features that have existed without flaws for a long time until now. The only reason I have iOS 8 is because my phone came with it -_-
 
Why always this silly comparison? Is it to inflate iOS self worth?

Android and apple have different update models.
Apple updates its core app and underlying os at once, android updates its own apps and os more independent. Older android OS versions have the latest apps .

Don't really see why it matters, rarely do the old devices get new functionality with iOS and android and both have up and downsides o the update model. With the cusom ROMS on android and sometimes very limited future support on iOS I am no finding myself to prefer either .
 
Well this is one way to make it to the one per center list... Still running iOS 5.1 on my iPad.
 
wow who would thought that an update that downloads itself and bugs the user to go through with it, while forcing developers to abandon backwards compatibility, would be popular?
 
bbeagle said:
The number suggest either:

(a) Android users are satisfied with KitKat and scared of updating to Lollipop because of fears of Google and/or bugs.

(b) Android users have gotten frustrated with the Android experience and stopped using their devices before Lollipop.
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Or Option C which is closer to the truth. Mac Rumors is pushing the same confusing BS and continuing to confuse users. iOS is different than Android. Android 5.0.x was released, the manufactures take the code and do the updates. It is not a lets update everyone all at once. Google says here you go now you update. From there it takes around another 90 or so days to get the update out.

Follow by being on the latest is not as important on Android as Google updates most of the services in the back end complete separate from OS. Google play services are updated much more often so are most of the core apps.

Lastly unlike Apple Google OS does not force obsolete your phone. If you are not with in 1 version of the latest it pretty much no apps for you. Nor any updates for your apps.
 
iHack13 said:
I'm not using an Android phone but there is one thing I can tell you.
If Apple would let me go back to iOS7 I would do so immediately.

But Apple wants to keep showing figures like these while slowing down my device , so that I buy their newest product.
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I've had no issues with iOS8 on an iPhone 5. What are you running, a 3GS?
 
bbeagle said:
The number suggest either:

(a) Android users are satisfied with KitKat and scared of updating to Lollipop because of fears of Google and/or bugs.

(b) Android users have gotten frustrated with the Android experience and stopped using their devices before Lollipop.
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(c) The Android user base isn't filled with the amount of techno propellerhead do-it-yourselfers that they would like you to believe are there.
 
I am not sure if we are comparing apples to apples here, so is this calculation based on devices which are capable of running iOS8/Lollipop yet not running it?

We cant expect Nexus S to support Lollipop, just like 3GS to run iOS8 because of the lack of performance on those devices.

When apple releases these kind of numbers, I'm skeptical - there are hundreds of thousands of iPhone 4 out in the market still running iOS6, I am extremely confident they didnt include that on this calculation yet they might include old android devices which cannot support lollipop/kitkat or even jellybean.
 
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How many updates were done only because someone else updated the device for a clueless owner.

OH and the adoption rate would be higher if iOS8 didn't make iPad 2's and iphone 4s's slow as molasses.

Also adoption rate would be lower if users of older devices could revert back to iOS7. :)
 
Adoption rates could be nearly 100% if Apple did a better job of legacy support. There are literally hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there that can't run iOS8. With better programming, graceful fall backs and device targeted compilation Apple could make every single iOS device run iOS8. Sure, some features might not be available but the important parts up the updates would be on all devices. This would mean longer runs with the hardware which passes down through the economic stratosphere reaching more users who can't afford newer Apple hardware. That in turn means more sales of iTunes store content, media, apps, etc. Kaching!
 
technosix said:
That's misinterpreting the data.

Apple being closed and promoting a culture that keeps many users craving the latest Apple has to offer immediately and free, it's customary for users to update. Nothing new about this.

Conversely with a number of Android handset makers free to offer products of varying configurations and OS versions, there's a lot of choice.

Those tech enthusiasts that are skilled know that newer is not always better, nor does it make existing computers, smartphones and tablets that are working well, operate any better than they do in their current fast, stable and reliable setup.

Even within Apple many users prefer an earlier version for its particular features and benefits.

Newer is only relevant to Apple in its constant drive to obsolete and then sell new hardware in their predetermined schedule. A brilliant strategy that's carried them to astronomical success.

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This mirrors the average Apple buyer as well.
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And you're dead wrong. Most of people in my family ranging from 12 to 60 update their iOS themselves. I don't think Android folks in that range would know. In fact, no offense, most android owners are those geeks who have nothing to do but a lot of time to root or configure their phone to serve their needs while iOS users just buy apps since there's an app for almost every thing on App Store. This is the difference between iOS users and Android users: purchase apps.
 
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