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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. Customer focus by Microlith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well when you're Apple and have a unique position among the handset vendors where the carrier doesn't insist on fucking with your device software and lets you treat the end user as the customer, and interact with them directly to provide support, then it's a lot easier.

    When you have the mistaken perspective (easy to make in the US) that the carrier is your customer and you should cater to them, shit happens like ancient devices without updates. Not that it'd help blatantly irresponsible companies like Motorola, who repeatedly abandon handsets after a year or so, but may be they'd be more willing to do a better job (or more directly feel the effects) if they weren't protected by contracts and buffered from reality by the carriers.

  2. Re:Good luck with those new map service. by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For those that haven't already seen it, there is a growing collection of iOS 6 map glitches on The Amazing IOS 6 Maps

  3. Actually... by sootman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... the really funny part is it also eclipses the over-one-year-old Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) as well.

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  4. Caching Problem by johnkoer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apparently there is a bug in Safari for IO6 that causes caching of POST requests, which is causing all sorts of web developers to scramble like crazy to implement cache busting in their apps.

    Thanks apple.

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  5. Re:Good luck with those new map service. by sg_oneill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The big problem for me is I mostly use the google map for its *excellent* bus and train routing. I can just drop in an address, let it pull my current location from the GPS and have it give me really great bus/train combinations. Apple has dropped this feature

    Until theres an alternative I simply cant upgrade. Which is a problem for me, being a full time IOS developer and all that.

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  6. Re:IN OTHER EARTH SHATTERINFG NEWS by Hork_Monkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    WTF happened to the trolls here? I used to kill time reading Adolf_HitTroll, the GNAA, etc. Love 'em, hate 'em, they filled that gap until the real content came in.

    Now there are hippies in my trolls!

    Not cool.Not cool. Vegetarian trolls can't even make dick jokes, so it's really just a waste of time.