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.
14 responses to “After One Year, iOS 4 Dominates 95% of iPhones”
I think they are trying to hold on the the free tethering hack!
Nay – only those who don’t know how to use computers are not upgrading to iOS4. No way they will get lost and reach here.
The 5% must be jailbreakers (or just the stupids).
I wonder if someone still has an original iPhone running iPhone OS 1.0…
I have and f*cking awesome iPhone 1 with iOS 3.1.3 and still rocks!
I have an iPhone 3G on 3.1.3 – iOS4 was wayyyy too slow on my phone
While playing with my old first generation iPhone I discovered that the call quality was much, much better than my iPhone 4… Sold the 4 and using the first generation without regret!