AppleInsider Staff
During Apple's quarterly conference call for the first fiscal quarter of 2014, CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed the company's new iOS 7 has now been installed on 80 percent of compatible iOS devices like iPhones and iPads.
With the 80 percent number, Apple's most recent mobile operating system continues to dominate rival Android, the latest version of which — 4.4 "KitKat" — is only running on roughly 1.5 percent of compatible devices.
In December, iOS 7 was reported to be installed on 78 percent of devices. Currently, devices able to update to iOS 7 include iPhone 5s, 5c, 5 4S and 4, and all iPads down to the iPad 2 and original iPad mini.
By comparison, the most-used Android version is the last-generation 4.3 "Jelly Bean," which is on roughly 60 percent of devices.
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I understand that some/many people like iOS7; I personally cannot stand it. It is only on 1 of the 5 iDevices at my house, and is never going on any of the others. Yeah, soon I will be limited in the apps I can buy, but I pretty much have everything I want/need. As I feared, they said that Mac OS 10.10 will also become flatter; I'll have to and and see how bad they make it.
Apple seems to be doing quite well without me regularly updating my iPhones and iPads. They'll probably do just fine without me updating my Macs. That is fine with me.
I like iOS 7, I'm with the 80%. Safari, mail, maps, calendar, weather are all better on 7 IMHO. The one thing I would like to see is getting back the "paste with current ??? design" on the right click in iWork. The four finger, two handed current way is a pain in the a$$. I realize it would be some work in the iOS version of iWork, but I am sure that Apple has the cohonees to get it done for my iPad 4. Groan
What percentage of currently-in-use iOS devices are compatible with iOS 7?
Slightly fewer, of course.
Most of those whom I know still use iOS 6, although they are capable to upgrade it to iOS 7.