On Wednesday, September 18, Apple opened access to the update of all compatible devices to the latest iOS 7. Despite the fact that the servers of the Cupertinos were heavily overloaded, most of the users had already managed to update their gadgets to the "seven". A very large part.
TechChrunch has collected statistics on mobile OS from several sources to find out how fast iOS users update their devices. According to Chitika, in the first 24 hours, iOS7 devices generated 18% of North American web traffic. The sample includes 300 million page views in the USA and Canada, so there is no reason to doubt its representativeness. In addition, the rate of updating to iOS 7 was higher than in the case of iOS 6. 18.2% versus 14.8 a year earlier. Not a bad result.
The company Mixpanel also keeps its statistics, which tracks the update of users of Apple gadgets to the new mobile operating system in real time. According to their data, 35% of users switched to iOS 7 on the first day. Interestingly, the main part is updated during the working day and at night. At the moment, there is no doubt that the vast majority of users have already upgraded to the current version of iOS. The situation is different on the Android platform: all versions of Jelly Bean (starting from 4.1) account for only 57% of the share of all Android devices.
OnSwipe, which has data on 1 million devices running iOS, also monitored the upgrade to the seventh version of iOS. According to their information, there were 31.27% who updated to iOS 7 on the first day, and they were much more willing to update on the iPhone than on the iPad - 34.04% versus 26.12%. And again, this is better than last year's results, when 25% of users switched to iOS 6 on the first day.
Yes, Apple's competitors can only dream of such results. Imagine a situation that after the release of Android 5 and Windows Phone 8.1, a third of users will upgrade to them. This is simply impossible, because on other platforms, consumers are not put in the most advantageous position. When buying an Android or Windows Phone smartphone, you don't know for sure whether you will be able to receive updates to the latest firmware in a timely manner. Apple takes a different position and behaves predictably. Just imagine, a 3-year-old phone (iPhone 4) has received a fresh iOS update. It's hard to imagine this on other platforms.
Such a fast pace of updates is also beneficial for application developers. After all, the first updated users willingly download new applications from the App Store. And considering how radically the applications for iOS 7 have been updated, they become even more desirable for users, because applications developed for old iOS look strange and clumsy on iOS 7.
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