Posted on 09/29/2017 11:12:16 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If you have a newer iOS device and you haven’t yet upgraded to iOS 11, you should know that you’re in an ever-dwindling group. Apple’s iPhone 8 (and the yet-to-be-launch iPhone X) come with iOS 11 pre-installed, but as with all iOS update rollouts, iOS 11 is also being installed on older devices at a brisk pace. The current percentage of iOS 11 users is nearly 25%, and since the update has only been available for about a week, that’s obviously an incredible feat.
But what the 25% figure doesn’t fully reveal is how Apple’s mobile operating system compares to its primary competitor, Android, in terms of user adoption. If we want to compare apples to apples, iOS 11’s Android counterpart would be Oreo. Oreo has only rolled out for a handful of devices, and as such it doesn’t even show up on Google’s platform tracking chart, so there’s really no comparison that can even be made.
Looking farther back, we can use Android Nougat — which was officially released in August of 2016 — instead. Remember, iOS 11 has only been out for a week, and currently has nearly 25% adoption among iOS devices. The year-old Android Nougat has less than 16% adoption among Android devices. Android Marshmallow, now roughly two years old, boasts double the number of users at 32.2%, while Lollipop comes in at 28.8%.
In fact, if you want to find an Android version that has a comparable percentage of adopters to Nougat you’ll have to look as far back as Android Kitkat, which has a little over 15% share. That’s a whole lot of fragmentation.
I agree, I wish Apple would make their systems compatible with others.
I’d love to have something like the Echo that ties in with stereos, lights, switches, garage doors, heating, weather stations, video cameras and air conditioning.
Amazon is so way ahead of the game when it comes to the IOT’s.
Ed
I haven’t had but one failure, but I believe you.
When my update failed, my cell provider received the report and they pushed an update 2 weeks later that was successful.
I know how the updates work and knew that they would push a new installer automatically and waited.
I can see if you didn’t have confidence you would panic and want to get an update right away. That’s one of the reason’s I think many cell providers don’t do enough testing before pushing out the updates, freaks people out that don’t know any better.
Apple has had it’s share of customer freakout, but not normally because of update failure, it was bricked phones or Apps no longer working.
No worries, most of these devices are going to cloud based solutions that are infinitely more compatible with Apple and any platform.
It has been a long time getting to this point.
Nice try for a deflection, No sale.
And Apple and many of it’s top leadership supported Hillary - yet you still give them your money. I am not full of hate. but I do make exception(s) for smug ass Apple cult members. Don’t preach to me. You started this by telling me I needed to go somewhere else - with no authority to do so. How “conservative” is that?
Go ahead and continue to send your money to the Apple spaceship headquarters - you will get your wish. Quit worshiping a false god.
“Next time Grandma asks why you’re going to the mall on Sunday morning instead of church, tell her you’re going to Apple Chapel.
For Apple fans, the brand triggers a reaction in the brain that’s not unlike that of religious devotees, according to a BBC documentary series that cites neurological research.
The neuroscientists ran a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test on an Apple fanatic and discovered that images of the technology company’s gadgets lit up the same parts of the brain as images of a deity do for religious people, the report says.
The first episode of the documentary shows Apple employees “whipped up into some sort of crazy, evangelical frenzy” at the recent opening of an Apple store in London.
Observers and Apple critics have long accused fans of the tech company of taking their infatuation to an extreme.
People have gone to great lengths to prove their love of Apple with tattoos, bumper stickers and home shrines to outmoded Mac computers. Apple’s cult-like following was highlighted in a 2009 documentary called “Macheads.”
A blog, aptly titled Cult of Mac, wrote on Thursday about Oakland, California, resident Gary Allen’s cross-country pilgrimage to Apple’s first store in Virginia to celebrate the retail chain’s 10th anniversary this week.
In speeches, Pope Benedict XVI has said technology consumption poses a threat to religion and the Roman Catholic church. The holy leader told a Palm Sunday crowd last month that technology cannot replace God.
However, apparently it may inspire god-like devotion.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/19/apple.religion/index.html
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