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iOS 8 Now Installed on Nearly 60 Percent of Active iOS Devices
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It's probably important to add that Apple does make your iOS device obsolete, bit by bit, over time if you stay on the original iOS version with just point updates (your iPhone 5 with iOS 6 is the perfect example - I have one myself with iOS 6, which I love).
Here's how they do it....you can't use Facetime on that iPhone 5 on iOS 6, because Apple had the certificates supporting Facetime in iOS 6 expire shortly after iOS 7 was released (if you wanted Facetime on that iPhone 5 you have to upgrade to iOS 7/8). Presumably that's not the only certificate validated functionality that will expire (I'd guess iMessage will time bomb at some point as well).
I agree with what you're saying - unfortunately existing functionality on the devices will die over time as the supporting certificates expire - so Apple does make the devices become obsolete (if they stay on their release iOS version - besides point updates) as time marches on.
My Dad is a proud 5%er. He has a 3GS. Still. He basically uses it as an iPod. But he's 82, so he can do whatever he wants in my book.
Tell Dad that there are many of us proud 6 per centers. I could easily be his daughter. My iDevices are on iOS 5 and 6. No plans to downgrade to 8.
It was pushed to iPad mini. That got rid of the uninstalled 7 that was pushed last year
Cook loves to gush about the percentage of users on the latest OS. I doubt he wants to talk about the tiny little marketshare of iOS users.
Apple Pay only works with iPhone 6; iPhone 6 ships with iOS 8; I very much doubt it's enticed many to upgrade.
No other reason for this buggy OS. They sold you a new device. Mission accomplished.
Sorry to see you dropping the iPhone. I personally haven't had trouble navigating the minimal changes they made to iOS 8. They haven't moved any furniture around: just added a few things.
Refurbs are best bought off the Apple website, though you might get a good deal at BestBuy black Friday on a new one.
Apple said that 90 something percent of ios users are on ios7, while only 9 or so percent of android users are on KitKat. That's a rather retarded comparison, because there is a significantly lower amount of android devices around compatible with KitKat as compared to ios devices compatible with ios7.
No. Or would the beta testing of yosemite conclude the official adoption rate of yosemite?
No. Or would the beta testing of yosemite conclude the official adoption rate of yosemite?
Is that flame bait? Define tiny.
Per http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/2/5772344/apple-wwdc-2014-stats-update Apple has sold more than 800 million iOS devices, 130 million new iOS users in the last year.
Is iOS < Android in total numbers? Sure (See here for a chart) But it is rather odd to call hundreds of millions "tiny"
Besides which, who cares? That "tiny" number is making a decidely non-tiny percentage of the mobile market's profit.
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I might just be being stupid or something, or not totally understand the "statistic" world .... but 56+40+5=101 ...... I thought it should only add up to 100%?!
Not that hard to comprehend...
These numbers were likely rounded up. From something like (totally out of my arse):
55.6
39.6
4.8
Just like "56%" was then rounded up to 60%... Just sloppy, if you ask me.
It goes hand in hand. Apple encourages devs to use the latest version of iOS and its features because it helps boost sales and, generally speaking, move forward. I don't think it's some sort of twisted scheme tho, let's just be a bit more honest about "those" numbers.
That sounds like 2013's news, but why is that comparison retarded? It highlights one of the inherent weaknesses of spreading one's OS across literally hundreds of different hardware platform designs. It makes it hard on app developers to upgrade their customer base. It means that Android must work that much harder to program security updates coordinate new features.
Actually a lot of people are having iOS 8 issues on iPad 2. Even on a fresh install, iOS 8 is slower than iOS 7 (I tested both) and it stutters a lot. People want to go back to iOS 7 as it was stable and fast.
Hi brianvictor7,
No, it's not flame bait. Android is the dominant system. Apple's iOS started out as the only game in town. There has been a steady erosion.
I'm not certain as to the percentage. The last time I read a recent item Android was running on about 80% of mobile devices.
Not very good. Apple could get near 100% transition if they would support older devices. Same for MacOSX. It really isn't that hard (gracefully fall back on features that are too advance for the hardware, envelope for older APIs), they're experts and they've got the hundreds of billions of dollars in cash sitting around in cash that could be applied to legacy support. The result would be hundreds of millions of older still functional Macs and iOS devices would be kept running, out of the land fills, users of those would continue accessing iTunes and the App stores thus buying more and older devices get passed down to introduce new users to the Mac/iOS garden. This is environmentally and financially green. It would let Apple achieve near 100% adoption of the new OSs while continuing to support old hardware and software.
I certainly agree with you insofar as you're saying it's a matter of personal preference. I don't like when people act as though the minimalism of iOS 7/8 and Yosemite are either inevitable or inherently better. It's a design choice, one that will appeal to some people and not others. Personally, I think there's a happy medium to be found between some of the over-the-top skeuomorphism of iOS 6 and the barren landscape that is iOS 7/8. On the OS X side, Mavericks was really not very skeuomorphic to begin with (though I'm sure one can find some examples), and I see Yosemite's design as a fix for a problem that didn't exist.
I'm absolutely in agreement that greater support of older hardware would be nice (ref to the aging 2009 iMac in my Signature block which has probably seen its last OS update with Yosemite: it is slower with the new OS). I do understand why they don't support devices older than 3-5 years.
1) it doesn't make them more money because they aren't selling new hardware and software through developers
2) at some point, it becomes a poorer user experience to not have all the high-profile features that everyone else enjoys and the older devices are just not able to run the new OS quickly. All this tends to erode perception of brand value.
3) it introduces programming complications for developers who must tailor their apps to partly function on devices with the handicapped versions of the new iOS.
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