As we prepare to welcome iOS 5 to our devices, a look back finds iOS 4 is used by nearly all iPhones just a year after its release. Unveiled a year ago for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G, iOS 4 is on 95.59 percent of Apple handsets, an advertising firm announced Wednesday.
The results aren’t too surprising, given 90 percent of iPhone users adopted iOS 4 just six months after the update was released.
Just 4.22 percent on using iOS 3, presumably original iPhone owners who were left out of the iOS 4 upgrade. An even smaller portion — 0.17 percent — of iPhone users still have iOS 2 installed.
The findings come from German advertising bureau Apprupt.
Any hold outs out there? Anyone still rocking iOS 3.1.3… or *gasp* even lower? Show your badges of pride in the comments.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
