“Mobile publishing and monetization platform Onswipe have created an infographic comparing iOS 7 adoption with that of the recently launched iOS 7.1,” Luke Dormehl reports for Cult of Mac.
“Both iOS versions are tracked for the first 4.5 days of their respective releases. As the chart makes clear, while iOS 7 represented 45.90% of iOS traffic after that time, the incremental improvement iOS 7.1 showed a respectable 28.27% adoption rate for active devices,” Dormehl reports reports. “While iOS 7’s radical redesign saw it achieve faster adoption, iOS 7.1 is still holding its own.”
Dormehl reports, “‘iOS 7.1 and 7.0 had a similar growth curve on the first few hours,’ says Onswipe analyst Jason Baptiste, who pulled the figures for Cult of Mac. ‘iOS 7.1 did give 7.0 a good run for its money in terms of adoption. We’ve seen a 2.36x boost in iOS 7.1 adoption over the past 48 hours to over 28%. I think there’s two main drivers here — Apple has set up an effective system, and they’ve also frustrated a lot of users over the past 6 months with iOS 7. Many people feel this software is like giving them a ‘brand new phone,’ hence the desire for many to upgrade.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
The update showed up on my ipad mini software update …but not highlighted with a red warning in the settings icon … so anyway I installed it.
Now I find out it’s not for ipad … what gives … Am I going to regret it … .
The moment you install iOS 7 from iOS 6 you will have regretted it.
Or you won’t.
No you won’t.
It is for iPad… there is a specific iteration for iPhone, another for the iPad mini and another for the iPad. You can read more about it on the Apple website under support.
And BTW, if it wasn’t meant for your iPad mini, it wouldn’t have shown up. Just how Apple works. 🙂
Eric, if it wasn’t for your IOS devise, it wouldn’t install. But I think you already knew that.
Anyhow, here’s a bit of Edith Piaf to help you over your regret.
She was pretty good, but when it comes to French music I love the accordion. Mellows me out better than a doobie ever did.
Let us not forget the big scare we got re security in the last few weeks…..patch ….that kinda speeds things up
People don’t get excited about .1 releases, thus the slower adoption. People will update their devices when those devices notify them.
——RM
I really wonder the usefulness of these articles on the ‘strength’ of the adoption of new iOS versions are when there is no path to revert to the prior OS level if the user finds the experience not to his/her liking. The implication is that users like the new OS and thus stay keeping the number strong, which really does not seem to be the case with recent versions.
The subliminal message being delivered is “ha ha–android is fragmented and we’re not—nyah nyah.”
Not really fair, comparing the adoption rate of a major, radically redesigned, and slightly buggy OS release to the minor update that fixed most its issues.