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Last week on Wednesday Apple released released the new iOS 9 mobile operating system to the public, and after the first weekend when users could install it on their iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, announced the first official numbers: iOS 9 is already running on more than half of active devices and is likely to become the with the fastest adoption in history.

As of this morning, we only had unofficial numbers from analytics firm MixPanel. According to its data, iOS 9 was expected to run on more than 36 percent of devices after the first weekend. However, Apple has now stated in a press release, according to its own data measured in the App Store, as of Saturday, September 19, that iOS 9 is already running on more than 50 percent of active iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.

"iOS 9 is off to an amazing start and is on track to become the most downloaded operating system in Apple's history," said Apple's chief marketing officer Phil Schiller, who can't wait for the new iPhone 6s to go on sale on Friday. "User response to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has been incredibly positive," said Schiller.

In just a few days, iOS 9 overtook rival Android Lollipop, the latest operating system from Google. It currently reports that it only runs on 21 percent of devices, and that's been out for almost a year. Android pays for high device fragmentation here.

The main news are in iOS 9 after years that brought dozens of new functions and options in iPhones and iPads, especially stability and better performance. But the changes also affected several basic applications, and iPads are much more productive thanks to iOS 9.

Source: MixPanel, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),
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