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iOS 9 is Now Installed on 75% of Active iOS Devices

Not to much to be proud of really. If iOS9 was the end all of iOS then just about everyone would update. Three out of four? It would be more likely nine out of 10.
 
gaximus said:
Thats the answer to every thing, sue. Then Apple stops trying to get you to update, and you get a virus that deletes all your family photos because of a security whole, the update would have fixed, and you'll want to sue Apple for that as well.
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Or Apple could just publish security updates for the older phones...since you know, I am pretty sure Apple knows that the full blown update will cripple the older iPhones. It will be interesting to know Tim's (or any Apple management) views on how updates cripple older iPhones. Get them on Walt Mossberg's Recode, show them a iPhone 4S wailing when running iOS 9 and then show them that you can't downgrade back to the older version. It will be interesting to see their reaction. I am pretty sure that will be the last Apple interview for Walt Mossberg but it will be worth it :-D
 
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ios9 on my ipad 3 is an absolute misery to use and there's no going back. it makes me pretty disappointed.

but then i looked at a coworker's galaxy s6 that they *just* bought, and it looked like a choppy unresponsive mess too.

so i'm just sad in general with slipping standards. everyone is more concerned with marketable features than user experience. i guess that just means that there's an opportunity out there. whoever starts putting experience first again will get my business.
 
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When I see a post like this I usually check it against the Google Analytics accounts I have.
What I'm seeing today for the first 1/2 of January is:

Windoz 31.6%
iOS 28.5%
Android 24.68%
MacOS 11.16%
Linux 1.6%

iOS 9.x 71.6%
iOS 8.x 19.6%
iOS <8 8.8%

Android 5.x 51.3%
Android 4.x 45.2%
Android <4 3.44%

I'm therefore skeptical of the 75% claim by Apple for 9.x especially since my 8.x stats are an exact match.
Could be that Apple isn't counting anything < iOS7.
I'm seeing a range of iOS as low as v3.2.2

Android seems a lot less fragmented these days than it did in the past.
That was one of my excuses for not porting my iOS Apps to Android.
Need to stop using it. 🙂

Those figures will be skewed somewhat by the tracking blockers in Firefox and others.
Shouldn't affect the iOS numbers though.
 
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gaximus said:
Thats the answer to every thing, sue. Then Apple stops trying to get you to update, and you get a virus that deletes all your family photos because of a security whole, the update would have fixed, and you'll want to sue Apple for that as well.
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Give me an example where people with iPhone 4 experiencing: "virus that deletes all your family photos because of a security hole?" And what happens to the claim that iOS and malware are partically stangers?
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Not really. The numbers are there for iOS developers so that they know how safe it is to require a specific iOS version.

Gives us an idea of how many potential customers we're leaving off by using iOS 9 only features instead of limiting ourselves to features available in iOS 8.



Sexual Harrasment Panda!

Or am I thinking of a different episode?
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No no, it's the one with John Travolta and Tom Cruise
 
Isn't it funny that all the "cool" new software features in .2 and .3 have followed basically what amounts to a series of iOS releases designed only to ship Apple's new hardware: 6s, iPad Pro, Apple TV..

WARNING:
Consumers should never forget that Apple is a hardware company. Software resources within the company support ONLY THEIR NEW hardware as the highest priority, then maybe they fix other issues later. Support of older devices is WAY DOWN the priority list. Basically if you have an older device, DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER upgrading to a new iOS Major release until X.N, where N is the number of hardware "things" released off of the iOS code base at/after the major (X) release.

So in this case: X=9 (the major release), and 3 iOS related devices (6s, iPad Pro, TV) so X.N = 9.3

Essentially:
iOS 9.0 should have been called iOS for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.
iOS 9.1 should have been called iOS for iPad Pro.
And, in the mix they shipped Apple TV, which is basically iOS and "churns" the iOS code base.

I've been an active iOS developer selling apps since iOS 2. iOS 9 takes the cake for "Worst Release Quality Ever". Most of the bugs I reported on the developer previews still have not been fixed.
Apple is starting to slide back to the ancient era mindset (30+ years ago) when an Operating System was created solely for a piece of hardware (even general purpose computers) - Think TRS 80.

iOS 9.2 is at best beta quality level (for all devices, especially legacy) - (all the crash bugs I reported at least don't crash on iOS 9.2, but they aren't totally fixed either - functionality is still broken).

Maybe 9.3 will be release quality.

My everyday main use devices still are on 8.4.1
I've renamed iOS 9 to "iOS Nein".
 
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TouchMint.com said:
This is great to see I love that apple pushes these updates so hard. This really helps developers.
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Um, NO, it does not help developers to take THREE point releases to get an OS to where it should have been FOUR MONTHS AGO!!

Every time Apple releases a point update, we get a new version of Xcode + SDK "toolchain" that must be validated before use in our production workflow. This takes effort that we cannot even charge our customers for because we cannot charge for updates, even to fix bugs introduced BY APPLE in their crappy releases.

Would you pay for an In app purchase to buy "workarounds" for crash bugs in our apps that APPLE CAUSED in by their stupid bugs? I would assume not.
 
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developer13245 said:
Um, NO, it does not help developers to take THREE point releases to get an OS to where it should have been FOUR MONTHS AGO!!

Every time Apple releases a point update, we get a new version of Xcode + SDK "toolchain" that must be validated before use in our production workflow. This takes effort that we cannot even charge our customers for because we cannot charge for updates, even to fix bugs introduced BY APPLE in their crappy releases.

Would you pay for an In app purchase to buy "workarounds" for crash bugs in our apps that APPLE CAUSED in by their stupid bugs? I would assume not.
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Yet you still get more return from App Store than Google's Play Store. Stop complaining and enjoy your cash flows...
 
iRock1 said:
Oh, here we ago again...

Seriously, what's the point? To laugh at Android? And then?

Believe me – I'd go back to iOS 6 as soon as possible if it was allowed. I'd love to be part of that proud 7%.
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Not really what those stats are mainly for.
 
Seoras said:
Android seems a lot less fragmented these days than it did in the past.
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LOL?
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Official Google data

Marshmallow is only 0.7%!

To target 75% of Android smartphones, you need to go back to Jelly Bean! That's equivalent to iOS 6!
 
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LovingTeddy said:
Yet you still get more return from App Store than Google's Play Store. Stop complaining and enjoy your cash flows...
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Yup, Hemorrhoid is a royal POS. Apple knows that and is taking advantage of it to screw developers by:
1. Forcing developers to give away 5 copies of each app under Family share - you could have opted out, but then you weren't allowed to upload new binaries or renew the dev membership, so you'd essentially get kicked of the store.
2. Removing sort by release date. Yes, I know it's my responsibility to market my apps, but any marketing campaign is designed for how users purchase the product (see Marketing 101) - this was a haphazard change made (without notice) to the app store, which is how customers buy our iOS products. And yes, being on the top of the new releases list is a "Marketing Free Spin", but without that "Free Spin", the cost of marketing goes way up, and with it goes the investment cost and risk.. so how many apps will not be developed on the platform because costs and risk have gone up? AND knowing Apple can basically make any change they want becomes a risk multiplier. It's obvious they no longer give a crap about small developers, now that the iOS platform is established.

Yes, I enjoyed decent revenue in the early days as a small shop right up until family share, then the revenue declined sharply. Overall these two forced changes alone are forcing small developers out of the business. I also have developed and supported apps for other medium and large-ish sized companies that have now have just removed apps from the store instead of paying support costs (9.0.....9.3 in three months). It basically went like this:

9.0:
Some company: OH NO!!! Our app that was working fine now crashes like crazy!!!!
Me: Ok, iOS 9 has bugs, I can develop workarounds and report bugs to Apple (Yeah! I made some good $$ ).. but
Company's Customers: YOU SUCK YOUR APP CRASHES ON 9.0!, THEN YOU SUCK AGAIN BECAUSE YOUR UPDATE HAD TO LIMIT FUNCTIONALITY TO GET AROUND APPLE'S BUGGY OS!!
9.1:
Some company: OH NO!!! We're getting killed by our angry customers, Has apple fixed their bugs yet?
Me: Testing $$$... NO.
9.2:
Some company: OH NO!! We're still getting killed by our angry customers, Has apple fixed their bugs yet?
Me: Testing $$$ .. Well, no, but at least they don't crash your app anymore, but apple just implemented the same workarounds I did, so customers won't notice any difference even if I remove the workarounds and roll an update, but.. that does not guarantee apple will not re-crash-break this same functionality in the next iOS release....
Some company: forget it, we pulled the app from the store.

End of story....
 
If no one was using the latest version of iTunes you wouldn't have a reason to update neither. I'm sure that's got allot to do with the users now using the latest anything.

Lets keep driving forward.

(I expected more users on iOS 7 than a small 7%) oh well.. maybe 10%?
 
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