iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: After a longer wait than usual, Apple today finally released the first official numbers for iOS 11. The various figures and estimates released by marketing and research firms are no longer relevant, as we now know for certain that iOS 11 has passed the 50 percent mark in less than two months. In other words, the latest version of the company's mobile operating system is now on one in every two of its mobile devices. iOS 11 was released on September 13, meaning it took less than seven weeks to reach the majority of users that Apple tracks. While this is certainly impressive, keep in mind that iOS 10 took less than a month and iOS 9 took less than a week to hit the same adoption milestone. Sure, the number of iOS devices is growing, but Apple also cuts down the number allowed to get the latest updates.

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Re:Auto update?

[BitZtream]

1. Auto update nags the user, user upgrades because that's what users do

And this is why I switched away from an iPhone.

Nagging every single day to upgrade with no way to stop it. For my wife, by the time she would allow the thing to update because she didn't actually need her phone for a bit ... it was time for a new update so a few days later, another fucking nag screen.

I'm not beta testing your software Apple. I was fine with it before Jobs died, but quality control is second priority at best now so I can't trust your shit to not break in some utterly stupid way that fucks me over, so I can't/won't upgrade until other people do and I know its safe, and then I'm in the same boat, oh look, new update!

I update my device when I have a reason to, not just because some hipster dipshit 20 year old dev who has NEVER had a real job in his life things its perfectly acceptable to update software every fucking day. I'm also an old software dev who isn't stupid enough to think Agile is a good thing.