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Would be interesting to see a comparison to iOS - are there figures available?

natesm 15y ago
Marco Arment does it pretty regularly: http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-version-stats-from-instapaper http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi...
- AllenKids 15y ago
  And it's also worth mentioning that Instapaper will require iOS 5.0 beginning next update. His active users' OS adoption rate is really astonishing.
falling 15y ago
The best I know of are from single developers, not global: http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-all-iPhone-owners-use-iOS4-%2a-today http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-all-iPhone-owners-us... http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-version-stats-from-instapaper http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi... for reference, iOS 5 was released October 12, Ice Cream Sandwich on October 19.
- fpgeek 15y ago
  Huh? ICS was announced on October 19th, not released. The first release didn't come until mid-November, when the GSM Galaxy Nexus went on sale.
  - falling 15y ago
    my bad, I checked Wikipedia and got deceived by the phrase “[…] officially launched at the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich release event on 19 October 2011” but then it says only the SDK was released that day. so, one month difference instead of one week.
objclxt 15y ago
The critical difference is once a new version of iOS is released Apple stop distributing the old one (with a slight exception when the iPad first came out, and was on 3.2). Only today Samsung have announced some new handsets at MWC that still run Gingerbread...
- falling 15y ago
  > The critical difference is once a new version of iOS is released Apple stop distributing the old one and all supported devices can get the update on release day by clicking a button.
bookwormAT 15y ago
The problem with these comparisons is that people take the rollout date of the end user operating system iOS and compare it to the first release date of the first OS based on a new version of Android. Since iOS has no cross platform component similar to Android, it would make more sense to compare it to Google's Nexus OS or to Samsung's Galaxy OS. I think the term "operating system" is so generic that it confuses a lot of people in these discussions. To many people and most tech journalists, the operating system is all software in a device before you install additional software. And by this definition, Android is not an operating system.

Marco Arment does it pretty regularly: http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-version-stats-from-instapaper http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi...

AllenKids 15y ago
And it's also worth mentioning that Instapaper will require iOS 5.0 beginning next update. His active users' OS adoption rate is really astonishing.

falling 15y ago

The best I know of are from single developers, not global: http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-all-iPhone-owners-use-iOS4-%2a-today http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-all-iPhone-owners-us... http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-version-stats-from-instapaper http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi... for reference, iOS 5 was released October 12, Ice Cream Sandwich on October 19.

fpgeek 15y ago
Huh? ICS was announced on October 19th, not released. The first release didn't come until mid-November, when the GSM Galaxy Nexus went on sale.
- falling 15y ago
  my bad, I checked Wikipedia and got deceived by the phrase “[…] officially launched at the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich release event on 19 October 2011” but then it says only the SDK was released that day. so, one month difference instead of one week.

objclxt 15y ago

The critical difference is once a new version of iOS is released Apple stop distributing the old one (with a slight exception when the iPad first came out, and was on 3.2). Only today Samsung have announced some new handsets at MWC that still run Gingerbread...

falling 15y ago
> The critical difference is once a new version of iOS is released Apple stop distributing the old one and all supported devices can get the update on release day by clicking a button.

bookwormAT 15y ago

The problem with these comparisons is that people take the rollout date of the end user operating system iOS and compare it to the first release date of the first OS based on a new version of Android. Since iOS has no cross platform component similar to Android, it would make more sense to compare it to Google's Nexus OS or to Samsung's Galaxy OS. I think the term "operating system" is so generic that it confuses a lot of people in these discussions. To many people and most tech journalists, the operating system is all software in a device before you install additional software. And by this definition, Android is not an operating system.