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I'm going to take that as sarcasm...
by supercoder 14y ago
I'm going to take that as sarcasm...
- brador 14y agoIt's actually becoming more of a problem. The longer screen of the new iphone for example.
- smackfu 14y agoAlso, the fact that you need to keep devices around just to test older OS versions. iOS has good upgrade stats but a lot of people are not upgrading to iOS 6 yet, and Apple is also marooning some well used devices like the iPad 1.
- brador 14y agoIt's a single data point but the reason I haven't updated is the 2.7gb of space required for IOS 6. I wanted an ipad 3 on day 1 and they only had the 16gb in stock. Which has just 12gb of usable.
- huxley 14y agoMy impression was that the 2.7GB was required for installation itself (space to save the installer, extract temporary files and install), after installation you get most of that space back.
- smackfu 14y agoTrue, although for a lot of people, that's a problem in itself. In a "post-PC" world where most of the space is taken up by photos and videos, how do you clear out 2.7 GB?
- huxley 14y agoJust to put some numbers to the upgrade stats you mentioned, Chitika reported 61% of iOS users were on iOS6 in late October about one month after its release. 9% were on iOS 4 4% on iOS 5 25% on iOS 5.1 http://bgr.com/2012/10/22/ios-6-adoption-rate-60-percent-iphone-ipad/ http://bgr.com/2012/10/22/ios-6-adoption-rate-60-percent-iph...
- smackfu 14y agoThe main issue is how fast those 5.1 people are moving on. Some of them are on iPad 1, so they will never upgrade. Other people are just indifferent to iOS upgrades, or don't have enough free space, or just plain don't want the upgrade due to the Maps and YouTube changes. Honestly, the main driver of the iOS 6 adoption at this point just seems to be selling new devices that come with it.