Kevin Bostic
The newest version of iOS is off to a roaring start, with iOS 7 now accounting for more than half of iOS Web traffic across North America, according to one study.
Fifty-one percent of traffic from devices running iOS in the United States and Canada now come from iOS 7 iPhones, iPads, and iPods, according to the latest figures from Chitika's online advertising network. That is a leap of 20 percentage points in the five days since the firm's last report.
Prior to the launch of iOS 7 last week, beta builds of the new operating system accounted for less than one percent of North American distribution on iPhones. Since its release, though, iOS users have readily installed the update, helped along at times by encouragement from police, who tout the update's strengthened security features.
Just 24 hours after iOS 7 launched, Chitika measured North American installs at just over 18 percent of the base market. Within another 24 hours, that estimate had climbed to 32 percent.
Install growth for the new operating system has outpaced that of its predecessor, iOS 6, which took about three days to pass the 30 percent mark. By February of this year, that figure had grown to 83 percent.
Apple's latest iOS can run on iPhones all the way back to the three-year-old iPhone 4, though neither that device nor the two-year-old iPhone 4S support all of the platform's new features. It also runs on the fifth-generation iPod touch and on iPads back to the iPad 2.
Chitika's findings are in keeping with the prediction Apple made earlier in September when revealing the new iPhone 5c and 5s. Touting the approaching 700 million mark for the total number of iOS devices sold worldwide, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that iOS 7 would become the most popular operating system in the world "virtually overnight."
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"Apple's latest iOS can run on iPhones all the way back to the three-year-old iPhone 4, though neither that device nor the two-year-old iPhone 4S support all of the platform's new features. It also runs on the fifth-generation iPod touch and on iPads back to the iPad 2."
Dangit...no wonder I am having trouble installing on my iPad 1 and original iPhone. I can't believe Apple has dropped support for these devices...the original iPad only came out three years ago, and Apple no longer supports it. And they sold a boatload of those original iPads, too! I imagine most people have newer iPhones now, but many still have the original iPad.
I think there is a bit of humor in this statement...ALL THE WAY BACK to the iPhone 4....it feels like the thing just came out.
And Fandroids with their 3-4 year old OS and fragmented OS deliveries are all crying out "But...but...but...."
Is Android 2.2 (and ABOVE) even on 50% of devices?
EDIT: Yep.
iOS 7 is a week old. 2.3, Gingerbread, from December 2010, doesn’t have 50% of the market yet.
Sadly, the Ipod 4 doesn't so i am going to have an upgrade on Christmas.
"Apple's latest iOS can run on iPhones all the way back to the three-year-old iPhone 4, though neither that device nor the two-year-old iPhone 4S support all of the platform's new features. It also runs on the fifth-generation iPod touch and on iPads back to the iPad 2."
Dangit...no wonder I am having trouble installing on my iPad 1 and original iPhone. I can't believe Apple has dropped support for these devices...the original iPad only came out three years ago, and Apple no longer supports it. And they sold a boatload of those original iPads, too! I imagine most people have newer iPhones now, but many still have the original iPad.
I think there is a bit of humor in this statement...ALL THE WAY BACK to the iPhone 4....it feels like the thing just came out.
Apple supports the iPad 1. You can get apps for it, customer service, and Genius help. You can use it with the latest Macs and iTunes, and you can restore to the highest OS level it supports.
But it doesn't have the performance needed for iOS 7. Nothing Apple could do would change that. Your iPad still does more than it did when you bought it, but there are practical limits. Enjoy what it has always done and keeps on doing! It's still a great machine for a lot of things.
It's tempting to wish that Apple hadn't advanced their software so quickly--and then we'd ALL miss out on the same things you're missing now. But that really wouldn't help you, if you think about it.
I feel your pain--I've been in that boat, and everyone with today's brand-new devices of any kind will one day be in that boat too! But 3 years really is a long time in the tech world. You expect your device to still run (and it does) but to keep getting the latest features? Just be glad you don't have Android, where many devices stop getting updates in mere months! Before they're even out of warranty... or before their contract is even up!