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I'm actually quite amazed by the adoption rate of iOS. Before iOS 5.0, it was very very hard for users to upgrade their OS. Android on the other hand is suppose

I'm actually quite amazed by the adoption rate of iOS. Before iOS 5.0, it was very very hard for users to upgrade their OS. Android on the other hand is supposed to be easier to upgrade. There was some statistics last year that shows only 50% of iOS users sync their iOS devices regularly, which means those people went out of their way to go and get the OS update. I still can't believe this fact. Now that iOS does update over the air, of course more iOS users will update quicker. Especially when the update comes straight from Apple, but the fact that iOS users upgrade their OS very quickly before 5.0 still impressed me.

MaxGabriel 14y ago
For reference, iOS 5 adoption was 80% at WWDC
- ghshephard 14y ago
  What percentage was iOS6? Between iOS 5/iOS 6 I would hope that it would be north of 90% at WWDC.
  - esusatyo 14y ago
    iOS 6 is still in beta, it will probably be out to general public sometime this month.
    - ghshephard 14y ago
      Right - I recall reading an article/blog/comment/pundit (Gruber? Marco?) that suggested that their were was a greater percentage of people using IOS 6 than there were Jellybean in the general population, right around the time of WWDC. At WWDC proper - I would expect a sizable percentage of developers were running IOS 6 on their devices.
  - MaxGabriel 14y ago
    I'm sorry for poor phrasing, what I meant to say was that at the time of WWDC, iOS 5 adoption of the population at large was 80%.
te_chris 14y ago
Samsung do their best to ensure that all the hard work google has put in to make android smooth to update is useless. My dad has a galaxy S (I've got a nexus s), he has to connect his phone to that POS kies crapware, I got OTA jelly bean about a month (if not longer) ago. I think he's just on 2.3. Carriers and Samsung are poison.
abraham 14y ago
The slow rate of Android updates is not caused by Android being hard for consumers to upgrade but by carriers/manufacturers not providing upgrades at all or too late.

MaxGabriel 14y ago

For reference, iOS 5 adoption was 80% at WWDC

ghshephard 14y ago
What percentage was iOS6? Between iOS 5/iOS 6 I would hope that it would be north of 90% at WWDC.
- esusatyo 14y ago
  iOS 6 is still in beta, it will probably be out to general public sometime this month.
  - ghshephard 14y ago
    Right - I recall reading an article/blog/comment/pundit (Gruber? Marco?) that suggested that their were was a greater percentage of people using IOS 6 than there were Jellybean in the general population, right around the time of WWDC. At WWDC proper - I would expect a sizable percentage of developers were running IOS 6 on their devices.
- MaxGabriel 14y ago
  I'm sorry for poor phrasing, what I meant to say was that at the time of WWDC, iOS 5 adoption of the population at large was 80%.

te_chris 14y ago

Samsung do their best to ensure that all the hard work google has put in to make android smooth to update is useless. My dad has a galaxy S (I've got a nexus s), he has to connect his phone to that POS kies crapware, I got OTA jelly bean about a month (if not longer) ago. I think he's just on 2.3. Carriers and Samsung are poison.

abraham 14y ago

The slow rate of Android updates is not caused by Android being hard for consumers to upgrade but by carriers/manufacturers not providing upgrades at all or too late.