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iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours

Posted by timothy on from the must've-hated-the-last-version dept.

An anonymous reader writes "iOS 6 has seen rapid adoption among iPhone and iPad users, reports developer David Smith. Smith's applications like Audiobooks get around 100k downloads weekly and he's taken to mapping the adoption of Apple's software releases over the last couple of years. This update's data shows a 35.4% adoption of iOS 6, with iOS 5.x holding court at 71.5% adoption. That's a pretty rapid pace, eclipsing Android Jelly Bean's 2-month adoption levels of 1.2% easily."

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  1. Always with the jabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, because comparing the release of Jelly Bean on a multitude of manufacturer, carrier, and hardware platforms is an entirely reasonable comparison to the release of an iOS locked to specific hardware, from one manufacturer.

  2. Comparing 2 different things... by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's a pretty rapid pace, eclipsing Android Jelly Bean's 2-month adoption levels of 1.2% easily

    Of course Jelly Bean's adoption level is very low because what, 3-4 devices support Jelly Bean officially? And those 3-4 devices are a small percentage of all Android devices. Heck, even the "flagship" Android phone the Galaxy S III won't be getting Jelly Bean until the end of September or later. While all iOS devices are Apple phones/tablets/media players and the iOS 6 update is available for all of them made within the past couple of years.

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    1. Re:Comparing 2 different things... by sootman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > Of course adoption is sky high; it's 1 phone

      3 old and one new phone, actually; and a few models of iPod and 2 models of iPad, plus several carriers and several cellular technologies.

      > and when iDrones see an update notification they
      > automatically do it.

      That's the whole point. They don't update because they're "iDrones", they update because it fucking works.

      > And lets not forget that most updates to iTunes force
      > you to update the iPhone software to work correctly.

      Bullshit. Every so often, you're forced to update iTunes to work with the newest OS, but this week's iTunes still works with my five-year-old original iPhone on iOS 3.x. You might need to update to the newest minor version in some cases (I'm not sure about that, but I'll go ahead and concede that to make my next point) but why not? THIS WHOLE SHIT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK.

      You're missing the forest for the trees. The fact that it's newsworthy that one company has made software updates work pretty smoothly in 2012 is pretty fucking sad.

      Partly this is Android being jerked around by the carriers, but it's also a matter of a bunch of OEMs who don't give a shit about a device once it's been sold, compared to the one company that actually wants you to be a happy customer and voluntarily return to buy more, and not just say "Well my old phone from X sucks, so I'll get a new one, but I'll stick with X, because all the rest are probably just as bad and at least I'm familiar with this one."

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  3. Re:Good luck with those new map service. by HJED · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using what appears to be WW2 survaliance photos, placing streets in the middle of rivers and lakes and moving towns a great distance away from their actual location (see GP's link) are Beta or even alpha features, this should not have replaced a working app which a large number of people rely on for directions. In Aus it dosen't even recognise any toll roads.

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  4. Re:Okay? by siddesu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it is comparing apples to oranges as usual. I wonder what is the adoption of JB on Google devices. For me, it is about 100%, as all my google android gadgets run JB.

  5. Re:Good luck with those new map service. by artor3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what would be even nicer than acknowledging the problem? Allowing their users to choose which map program they want to use, instead of forcing them to be pawns in Apple's war on Google.

  6. Re:Here is a hint: Stay away from numbers by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't have the capacity to read numbers right and are too stupid to work with them

    Here is a clue: That 71.5% is out of the 35.4%.

    I know ... you are probably too dumb to understand that direct response too. After all ... it has numbers.

    I'm too dumb to understand that. 71.5% out of the 35.4% are running ios6? and the 35.4 are running either ios6 or ios5? WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF REPORTING IS THAT??

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  7. Re:Good luck with those new map service. by Rich0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, there is certainly plenty of fault to go around:

    1. You don't have to break maps to deploy security updates.
    2. The android practice of not deploying security updates is one day going to lead to a massive cataclysm. If somebody manages to come up with some kind of email worm for Android you're going to see some fun times as the vendors tell everybody to just throw out their six-month-old phones and buy new ones.