Many of the stats we have about iOS marketshare and demographics come from third-party companies, most of whom are tracking ad impressions within their network. As such, their stats have the potential of being inaccurate, and need to be taken with at least a little bit of salt.
Looks like online ad network Chitika can be trusted though. Earlier this week, we reported that Chitika was now tracking 74.1% of all devices as running iOS 7. Now, Apple is backing those numbers up, and it makes Google look pathetic.
According to a new update on Apple’s developer website, iOS 7 is now running on 74% of all iOS devices… a remarkably quick upgrade rate for an operating system that is less than three months old.
The runner-up, of course, is iOS 6, which is running on a distant 22% of all iOS devices. That makes sense, as while everything from the iPhone 4 on can run iOS 7, iOS 6 was the last version of iOS to support devices released before Apple’s A4 processor debuted in the iPhone 4, as well as the first-generation iPad.
Again, this is official data, coming directly from Apple, so it can definitely be trusted. It’s amazing how closely it tracks to Chitika’s numbers, which show that a full 96% of all iOS devices in the wild are running an operating system released by Apple within the last fifteen months.
Is there really even a point in comparing these numbers to Android? No, but I will anyway: compared to iOS 7’s 94% adoption rate, the latest version of Android, KitKat, is currently running on a pathetic 1.1% of devices.
Source: Apple
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
12 responses to “Apple’s Official iOS 7 Adoption Numbers Make Android Look Absolutely Pathetic”
Ios7 is Absolutely pathetic