What does my performance in the gym have in common with iOS 9 adoption? Apparently the fact that both start strong, get a bit overconfident, and then run out of steam far too quickly.
That’s according to Apple’s latest developer figures, at least, which show that roughly 67 percent of eligible iOS users are currently upgraded to the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system.
While those are certainly not bad figures (and would have Android developers weeping with envy), it’s definitely disappointing given that it’s a lowly 1 percent increase in the past two weeks — representing a significant slowdown from the roughly 1 percent increase every 2.5 days that iOS 9 adoption was seeing just a couple of weeks back.
This slowdown isn’t entirely unexpected, however. Apple tends to see the same broad adoption patterns repeat year after year — with adoption rates eventually winding up in the high 80-something percent range. All that varies substantially is the speed at which this takes place. Currently iOS 9 is dominating last year’s iOS 8 on uptake, although it may end up slowing down quicker.
Yesterday, Apple seeded iOS 9.2 beta 3 to developers and public testers, adding fixes to the dictionary, keyboards, and networking.
Given that Apple devices are likely to do big sales on Black Friday and over the holiday season, I expect to see another surge in iOS 9 adoption soon.
Source: Apple
