Adoption of Apple's iOS 7 continues to rise, now at 85%
In a change to Apple's developer website on Monday, the company announced adoption of iOS 7 is now at 85 percent while the share of devices running iOS 6 has fallen to 12 percent.
For the week ending on Mar. 23, Apple logged iOS distribution at 85 percent, which represents a two-percent uptick from the week ending Mar. 9.
Adoption of Apple's iOS 7 has been growing steadily after it launched in September of 2013. One week after its debut, the version accounted for 52 percent of iOS web share, a statistic that jumped to 74 percent in early December. Later that month, Apple announced iOS 7 was on 78 percent of compatible devices.
During Apple's quarterly conference call for the first fiscal quarter of 2014 in January, CFO Phil Schiller reported 80 percent of compatible iOS devices had switched over to the company's latest operating system. That number jumped to 83 percent in February, according to ad network Chitika and Apple's own developer webpage.
As iOS 7 adoption steadily grows, share of the last-generation iOS 6 shrinks and now stands at 12 percent. Hardware running earlier operating systems combine to represent the remaining 3 percent share.
Likely contributing to this month's growth is the release of iOS 7.1, which brought CarPlay support, Touch ID enhancements and provisions for mass device deployment operations.
For the week ending on Mar. 23, Apple logged iOS distribution at 85 percent, which represents a two-percent uptick from the week ending Mar. 9.
Adoption of Apple's iOS 7 has been growing steadily after it launched in September of 2013. One week after its debut, the version accounted for 52 percent of iOS web share, a statistic that jumped to 74 percent in early December. Later that month, Apple announced iOS 7 was on 78 percent of compatible devices.
During Apple's quarterly conference call for the first fiscal quarter of 2014 in January, CFO Phil Schiller reported 80 percent of compatible iOS devices had switched over to the company's latest operating system. That number jumped to 83 percent in February, according to ad network Chitika and Apple's own developer webpage.
As iOS 7 adoption steadily grows, share of the last-generation iOS 6 shrinks and now stands at 12 percent. Hardware running earlier operating systems combine to represent the remaining 3 percent share.
Likely contributing to this month's growth is the release of iOS 7.1, which brought CarPlay support, Touch ID enhancements and provisions for mass device deployment operations.
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Seriously, amazing stat of iOS 7 adoption.
Waits for all the haters to say how much iOS 7 sucks....
Just as some are saying the failure of the 5C will be proven if Apple changes the branding after a year the same will be true if Apple doesn't keep iOS 7 for another year¡
So what do the Android loosers have to say now!
HaHa.
Apple Rules!
You Android loosers.
So what do the Android loosers have to say now!
HaHa.
Apple Rules!
You Android loosers.
Oh AI, you always put a smile on my face.
So what do the Android loosers have to say now!
HaHa.
Apple Rules!
You Android loosers.
You left out the /s tag? You're a reverse troll?
There is nothing even remotely connected to Android here. The article isn't about iOS sitting at 85% and Android sitting at 15%.
Had to look that one up, and LOL-ed afterwards:
So what do the Android loosers have to say now!
HaHa.
Apple Rules!
You Android loosers.
Getting a boner over an OS -who's the loser?
D
Failure of iOS 6 at 12%.
Seriously, amazing stat of iOS 7 adoption.
Doesn't help that I'm now REQUIRED to ruin my nice ipad with ios6 because ios6 is not secure enough for square. ios7 UI ruined every thing.
What's a looser?
Your post doesn't make sense ...on any level. Can't wait for your next post, but that may take another 3 years or so.
Apple has come out and said that your ipad on public networks are open to anyone that wants to view everything on your ipad while using ios6. I accept credit cards via my ipad using square. Square, and any other company that allows credit cards, is now requiring I change my os to 7. I bought the ipad based on the User Interface. In my opinion is has been ruined.
Siri blocks out the entire background, so instead of reading what I need to search for, I have to stop everything, go try and find a pen, go find some paper, write it down, then try it again.
App icons and buttons are now "flat", which basically means they are now dull, with no detail to show what they actually do.
Everything has been whited/greyed out. Fonts are now super skinny. Super skinny fonts, white on a light grey background is very difficult on my eyes. Not to mention when the background turns super bright neon.
...
When I had android, I tried some different Themes, and some looked cool for a moment, when I added them like a paper theme, it was not useable to me.
I paid for the UI, and now required to change it with no option to stay with the one I viewed as worth paying for.
Imagine you buy a car and they took out your nice interior and switched it to a center console scion interior. Imagine they take that nice gleaming black and made it a dull grey with neon highlights.
Apple has come out and said that your ipad on public networks are open to anyone that wants to view everything on your ipad while using ios6. I accept credit cards via my ipad using square. Square, and any other company that allows credit cards, is now requiring I change my os to 7. I bought the ipad based on the User Interface. In my opinion is has been ruined.
Siri blocks out the entire background, so instead of reading what I need to search for, I have to stop everything, go try and find a pen, go find some paper, write it down, then try it again.
App icons and buttons are now "flat", which basically means they are now dull, with no detail to show what they actually do.
Everything has been whited/greyed out. Fonts are now super skinny. Super skinny fonts, white on a light grey background is very difficult on my eyes. Not to mention when the background turns super bright neon.
...
When I had android, I tried some different Themes, and some looked cool for a moment, when I added them like a paper theme, it was not useable to me.
I paid for the UI, and now required to change it with no option to stay with the one I viewed as worth paying for.
Imagine you buy a car and they took out your nice interior and switched it to a center console scion interior. Imagine they take that nice gleaming black and made it a dull grey with neon highlights.
Grow up. It's worlds better than it used to. You wouldn't know a good UI if it hit you in the face.
Grow up. It's worlds better than it used to. You wouldn't know a good UI if it hit you in the face.
ha, nope, it is not. Used to be able to have a folder full of apps, now they limit that big ipad screen to HALF as many viewable.
What sense does that make to LIMIT it. Some bits of it might be better, but not the user interface. Not one bit. Just because your momma hit you in your face.....
Actually loved the original iOS7 upgrade for the added functionality so I was excited to see what 7.1 would bring. Well, it brought some visual changes that I'm not in love with and much shorter battery life on my 4S.... I really hope there's an update fixing the battery life soon
That said, idk what the iOS7 hate has been all about. Control Center alone was worth the upgrade from 6. While I might consider rolling back from the 7.1 update until they fix the battery life, there's no way I'd roll back to iOS6, even if I could.
Why are you using a public network? On any machine, others could read your data you send over wifi unless it's encrypted
In other news, adoption of Google's latest version of Android continues to rise, now at .085%.