Ondrej Holzman After two weeks, Apple again updated the statistics showing how many iPhones, iPads and iPod touch are using the latest iOS 8 operating system. As of December 8, 63% of devices had it installed, according to statistics from the App Store.
The adoption of the octal mobile operating system thus continues to grow little by little, two weeks ago it was at 60 percent, a month ago at 56 percent. On the contrary, the use of last year's version of iOS 7 is logically decreasing, it currently powers 33% of iPhones and iPads, and only four percent of active users remain on even older systems.
After the original stagnation so iOS 8 is slowly getting to where Apple surely wanted its operating system to be all along. A number of bugs in the early stages of iOS 8 caused distrust in the latest version among users, but Apple has already managed to fix most of the most fundamental problems.
Currently, the latest version is released yesterday iOS 8.1.2 bringing a fix for the missing ringtones issue, but for many users it was even more important iOS 8.1.1, which was supposed to make the system run faster on the oldest supported devices.
Well - I think this is a failure. Apparently they are not doing something right. If after a quarter of a year their new and already several times updated software is still not used by more than a third of the users, then I personally would not be satisfied - to be responsible for it. I understand that many people see it differently and turn it into a success, but if we detach ourselves from the usual Apple enthusiasm and look at it as any ordinary product, without looking for all sorts of excuses, then this is simply a failure.
But it's not about excuses... it's simple math:
How many iP4 and iP4s have been sold worldwide? How many are still active? How many iP5 and iP5s were sold? What is the ratio between devices?
Fragmentation is not according to the operating system, but much more according to the device. A third of the devices can easily fall into the category of iP4s and older, where the update is simply not worth that much. And it doesn't say much about the quality of iOS8.
People are afraid of what happened between 6 and 7. In my experience, when I upgraded directly to 8.1.1, this did not happen.
The problem is that even version 8.1.1 running on devices such as the iPad 2, Mini or iPhone 4s is still significantly slower than 7.1.2, and users therefore have no reason to install something that does not bring significantly many new functions and, on the other hand, they slowed down the device they were happy with until now.
Well, I don't know :-) for me, the biggest reason for updating older models in the family is precisely the reason for Family Sharing in iOS 8 ... when the dozens of high-quality purchased applications can be shared by my whole family :-)
As soon as I get a new iPad, the iPad 2 will only be for kids, so I'll try that too. I'm curious how well they softened, because it will really come in handy :-).
I've had iOS 4 for 8.1.1 days (in the form of an upgrade, not a clean install) and I have to say that it's not significantly slower. And it even fixed a couple of problems I had on iOS7 ;-). So satisfaction. It's definitely not a birth like iOS6 on 7.
I really like these manipulated stats :) I'm on the iOS 7 box not because I'm happy with the system, but just because I can't switch back to iOS 6 if I knew how terribly slow iOS 7 would be on the iPhone 4 , I would never do that! And then Apple brags about the great adoption of new systems, ... well, it shouldn't, when users don't have the option to return to old systems, when the new one isn't debugged, and when Apple doesn't even warn that there will be a significant slowdown after the update.
Gee, this is absolute rubbish, in the case of 7/8, the reason for the downgrade is the appalling design.
I got up in the morning and after an hour I went back from 7 to 6. In the afternoon it was no longer possible. I'm happily still on the 6, the system is great, only those applications will disappear.
Well, really, so a person doesn't really have a choice :-).
So I don't know why you did the update as soon as you were deaf. You should have waited a bit for the responses of other users and then you would have found out what you are up to. I don't know what you are complaining about :)
Because iOS 7 was the first shit :-). Today, people will change their minds after the past experience ;-).
And why can't we do whatever we want with our device? e.g. to downgrade, from a technical point of view it is not a problem.
I did it for a simple reason, ... because it didn't occur to me that a company like Apple would do something so stupid as to let a system on a device where it doesn't belong, I trusted that they "think differently" at Apple. And besides, as xx writes, why on earth don't I have the option to downgrade??
iPhone 4S, complete comfort right from the start. Stop complaining. People…
Don't be broken. On the iPad 3, every animation is a slideshow.
If it were possible to downgrade to iOS 6, those numbers would definitely look different...
The statistics would look different on iOS 7. But then it wouldn't be something to brag about and pat yourself on the back for.