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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.™