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“Mobile app analytics firm Localytics took a look at data from its analytics reports to compare the upgrade rates of two major smartphone upgrades from the summer: Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) on the Motorola Droid and iOS 4.0 on the iPhone 3GS,” Ong reports. “Android 2.2 for Motorola Droid was released on Aug. 12 and iOS 4.0 was released on June 21.”
Ong reports, “Based on the data, Localytics concluded that over-the-air upgrades result in a significantly higher upgrade rate.”
MacDailyNews Take: They also result in a significantly higher number of bricked devices. For one recent example: Users fume as software update bricks Sprint HTC EVO Android phones – June 30, 2010
Ong reports, “After two weeks, 96 percent of Droid users had upgraded to the new Android OS, while only 56 percent of iPhone 3GS users had upgraded. Even two months after the release of iOS 4.0, just 80 percent of iPhone 3GS users had upgraded.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: When you’ve settled for a Motorola ‘Roid (of all things) instead of the iPhone you really wanted, we imagine that the desperation to upgrade your OS would be understandably intense. When you already have the best by far, the need to upgrade isn’t nearly as mentally pressing.
Hope springs eternal, but you won’t be growing a Retina display anytime soon, either, suckers.
DROID DOES have an inferiority complex.™
It’s the OTA (over the air) that makes it happen.
OTA updates from carrier or via wifi would be great addition to iOS and ensure that customers were up-to-date.
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Or… Perhaps the reason some iPhone users are not upgrading is fear of bricking their jailbroken iPhone??
Their headline is also intentionally misleading. It’s only comparing the Motorola Droid updates, not all Android phones, which would have a MUCH lower percentage, since many are incapable of getting the most up-to-date Android OS.
Something about lies, damn lies, and statistics comes to mind.
After what happened to my 3G when I updated to iOS4, I will never upgrade (actually downgrade) an older Apple device with an update to the latest OS. Nobody’s going to be in a hurry to update if it makes the performance worse. Just a few cases of this are enough to make people weary of a similar poor experience – I personally know far too many people who had the same problems as me to make it statistically insignificant.
Spot on MDN!
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This data actually tells a different story.
My interpretation is that vast majority of Droid users are ‘knowledgeable’ users; those who chose the Android for whatever reasons (Verizon, anti-Apple sentiments, perceived ‘openness’, physical keyboard…). These people knew what version of OS they had and when the new one was coming out, and they updated.
Most iPhone users are ordinary, mainstream users (half of them women, by the way). They don’t know what is an OS, what is an upgrade, if they need one and why, and if they should actually click on the ‘Update’ button in iTunes. I know many iPhone owners that fall into this category.
Of all the phone makers out there, and all OS vendors (RIM, Symbian, Palm, MS, Google), Apple is the one that build the easiest, most intuitive, consistent and simple way to notify users of an available upgrade, as well as for them to actually install that upgrade. This statistical data isn’t now saying opposite; it is saying something else, and that is that the majority of Motorola Droid users are technologically knowledgeable.
Because android users are always trying to make their POS better while iPhone users already have a fully functional device which they are in no hurry to upgrade.
If they were truly interested in upgrading their Droid they’d E-Bay the POS and buy an iPhone.
@Predrag
I see your point. It is that droid users are brilliant and iPhone users, particularly the women are stupid? How come you don’t have a droid by your own logic?
I’m with Predrag on this one.
I think the standard Droid user, at this point, is more of a ‘tech geek’ than the standard iPhone user. After all, most of them say that they bought the phone because the ‘wanted the ”openness’ [ha!] to mess around with the phone’s innards. These are the kind of people who tend to be all over software update installations; certainly moreso than the generic, Joe Q. Public consumer targeted by Apple with the iPhone.
MDN Take: “DROID DOES have an inferiority complex.™”
Seems to me, it’s not a complex. DROID is inferior.
@Predrag
Your completely wrong.
The only reason droid users upgrade so quickly is because the upgrade is pushed out over the air. Where as iPhone users get the upgrade through iTunes. Letting them upgrade when its more convenient for them.
It has nothing to do with one group being more technological knowledgeable then another
@HughB
Actually, a study showed that iPhone users were more educated and wealthier than Android users. It sounds like you just have issues with “women” since you equate woman and stupid. You still have porn on the internet to keep you company.
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They’re just grasping at straws trying to see if upgrading their phones makes them work like iPhones.
I think Predrag is right, my mom and my sister’s iPhones always have a billion updates.
I also know many iPhone users who NEVER plug their phone into a computer, in fact the majority of “mass market” types (i.e. regular people, not techies) I know with iPhone rarely plug the device into their computer, instead they simply charge it with the USB plug.
Plumber was at my house the other day, he had only plugged his iPhone into his computer once … to active it.
Android user are more quicker to upgrade their OS is because they current device are sucks so bad, and they hope the next OS update will bring them miracle.
The 3G problems hit the internet right away, and I’m sure caused many to hold off, or completely ignore the update because what they had worked well.
The worked well reason does not hold for Android, hence the higher adoption rates.
This is a mildly stupid comparison of Android to iOS. Besides failing to note the hysteria surrounding AntennaGate, the report has no value outside of advertising Localytics existence (its intended purpose).
When I owned an Android phone I upgraded asap hoping, wishing & praying that it would fix the pos…No such luck…The old saying you can’t polish a turd is true…
It’s clever writing to make Android look better.
But to clear up it. They are specifically talking about the MOTOROLA DROID and thats it. NOT ALL ANDROID PHONES are accounted for, well because not all Android can be updated.
It’s a lot easier to play with the numbers when you use only fraction of whats out there. Yeah Moto Droid users updated so quickly to 2.2 because A)it’s over the air and Verizon forced it. B) 2.1 sucked really bad on the Moto Droid.
Look at the target population for Droids: young geeks who want to tinker. Enough said.
It’s missing some information.
There are far more 3GS out there (more than 10 times) and a big number of Droids (also sold as Milestone outside of US) are still waiting for their 2.2 update.
They write that to make it sound like its a benefit to constantly upgrade your device.
actually in my experience most android users I’v seen are women who only use there fone to”text” and update facebook.