iOS 9 adoption has ground to a halt, remaining static at 77 percent, according to Apple’s latest developer figures.
This is the exact same percentage of iOS 9 users as last time Apple published its adoption figures, on February 8 — and just 1 percent growth from this time last month. Meanwhile, 17 percent of users are running iOS 8, and 6 percent are still using an early version of Apple’s mobile OS.
The fact that adoption would remain static might sound disappointing given that iOS adoption usually climbs steadily until it is in the high 80 percent range, just prior to the launch of the next year’s version.
It’s still far more impressive than Android, however, which suffers from hopeless amounts of fragmentation. By comparison, the latest version of Android — Marshmallow — has a tiny 1.2 percent adoption rate.
Earlier this week, Apple dropped its fourth beta for iOS 9.3, with its release notes making mention of updated Apple TV remote firmware, Live Photo support, and tweaks relating to iCloud Library access, folders for apps, and Bluetooth keyboards.
Source: Apple
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
4 responses to “iOS 9 adoption grinds to a halt at 77 percent”
Doomed! Apple is doomed! Sell Sell Sell!
/sarcasm
This is confusing. A complete stall in iOS 9 figures means that Apple is not selling any new devices to switchers or existing iOS 8 users, but only to existing iOS 9 users. That seems doubtful.
Things do seem kind of quiet in Apple world lately. Aside from the iPhone hacking stuff, anyway.
terrible music app interface and terrible homesharing in iOS9 is the reason to stick with iOS8 (too bad, I cannot go back to iOS 5 that had the best player and best homesharing)