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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.
Windows 10 reached a market share of about 25% in over 2 years.
Now this would be the moment when you'd have to ask why.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The highest adoption rate is Marshmallow at 32% and Lollipop (with API 22) at 21%. That's the one big benefit of Apple: you get updates (for at least a handful number of years).
When the manufacturer controls the updates, I'm surprised it's THAT low.
iPhone users (...) are conditioned to upgrade their devices.
You know that on iOS, unlike Android, you can update to the latest OS version without buying a new phone, right ?
The adoption numbers are a result of updates actually being available to consumers, not lack of willingness to update on the part of Android users.
If you were 1/1000th the "power user" you claim to be, you'd know you can turn off the update nagging.
And what the hell is up with the native Podcast app. It is all but worthless now. I guess the Apple QA folks don't use it or have switched to an AppStore replacement.
They can't search for "install iOS 10" to revert... because they can't type "i"
You know that on iOS, unlike Android, you can update to the latest OS version without buying a new phone, right ?
My wife has iOS 11 on her iPhone 5s. I have an iPhone 7 Plus that I just upgraded to after the 8 & X were announced, and I still haven't updated to 11. Her battery drains pretty quickly.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
And what the hell is up with the native Podcast app. It is all but worthless now. I guess the Apple QA folks don't use it or have switched to an AppStore replacement.
My experience with iOS 11 suggests that Apple does not have any QA staff anymore. Certainly no QA staff that does something as silly as type the word "I" anywhere.
Following iOS 11/11.1 install, 3 years old iPhones have camera and GPS problems (iPhone 6/6+) ; not saying Apple intentionally crippled a 3 yo perfectly working hardware to force users to upgrade, but that's quite suspicious...
I don't believe it's anything malicious. I believe that Apple software quality is rapidly approaching 0.
You, sir, are completely uninformed. The reason iOS users update more frequently is precisely because the update does not come through the carriers. It comes directly from Apple. In all cases, no exceptions. And, of course, the update is completely free and always has been.
Even people with hand-me-downs and resales do updates.
Patently untrue. iOS 11 supports back to 5s. That's for a phone released in September of 2013. Meaning the Galaxy S5 which was released in April of 2014 will not be getting the upgrade (from Samsung). From a support model perspective, Apple wins hands down. It supports the devices longer with more frequent updates than even the best Android manufacturer.
The battery drain is definitely there - it's between 2 and 4 times as bad as with iOS 10. This would be after disabling all background processing, and removing cellular data from most apps. My suspicion is the mail app is still processing in the background, based on the fact that the battery drain shows mail in the top 2 at 10% drain in "background"... and mail is supposed to not run in background at all, and does have access to cellular. I've noticed that in weak cell service areas, the battery drains like you're mining bitcoin, so it's likely that mail is the primary culprit in my case, I'm considering testing by removing cellular data from mail just for a short while.
I installed iOS 11 to test a few things, on my personal phone, in a moment of forgetfulness. I normally don't install an update until the x.1 version comes out, because that's usually the beta, IMNSHO. Everything before that is not ready based on personal experience and testing since the iOS 9 release. Before that iOS was reasonably solid. If I could, I'd actually run on iOS 8, it was rock solid and didn't have any of the irritating bugs that really bother me with 10 and 11.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Here's the thing with Apple: I think they test everything as best as they can...but not in the real world.
The keyboard problems on their Pro laptops? That sounds like a lot of testing was done in Jony Ive's clean workroom. Same with the weird design problems with the AppleTV remote. Same with the TouchBar. All these things work great if you're not bringing something to a cafe and trying to get work done there, or sitting on a real couch with dogs and kids and trying to use the AppleTV remote in the dark while holding a drink.
Same with problems with the older phones. Nobody dogfoods this stuff. No employees (or not enough employees) are walking around with an iPhone 6 in their pockets trying to get on with their lives; the iPhone 6 is probably being tested in a lab with few apps installed and lots of empty space on the disk.
I love my Apple stuff, but sometimes it really feels like nobody tried to use it out in the street before shipping it.
You know that on iOS, unlike Android, you can update to the latest OS version without buying a new phone, right ?
Yes, that's technically true -- you don't have to buy a new phone until the update completes.
Glad someone else mentioned it. I'm having a hell of a time with Podcast. It took me about a month to get it halfway right in iOS 10, and about the time I did that 11 came out.
My main problem is, when one podcast ends, the next one won't start without manual intervention, which is particularly bad because I'm mostly listening on the road.
But really the whole interface is bad. Giant, screen-filling boxes, too much drilling down just to find an episode to play, difficult filters, a default that thinks you want to listen to a podcast backwards rather than in chronological order, a tendency to reset to the start screen if you leave and return, rather than picking up where you left off ...
I used to also have a huge problem with a scenario where I'd be listening to a podcast, pause on the lock screen, and when I pulled it up again to start playing, it would switch over to Music and play that instead of restarting my podcast. I haven't seen it this week, though. Not sure if the upgrade to 11 fixed that piece, or some series of reboots and consistent podcast listening helped it find a groove.
Are there other non-native podcast player options worth using? Does it integrate with iTunes podcast subscriptions?
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I love my Apple stuff, but sometimes it really feels like nobody tried to use it out in the street before shipping it.
Sometimes? Just about every single issue in the past few years could have easily been spotted by any QA or dev who just used their own tool. Even the calculator issue in iOS 11 shows that no one at Apple has bothered to use the calculator on their phone in the year or so that Apple has been working on the release.
Indeed that is pretty amazing. They tried to make something worse than iTunes and they SUCCEEDED! That is a great achievement.
-- Cheers!