iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours 513
An anonymous reader writes "iOS 6 has seen rapid adoption among iPhone and iPad users, reports developer David Smith. Smith's applications like Audiobooks get around 100k downloads weekly and he's taken to mapping the adoption of Apple's software releases over the last couple of years. This update's data shows a 35.4% adoption of iOS 6, with iOS 5.x holding court at 71.5% adoption. That's a pretty rapid pace, eclipsing Android Jelly Bean's 2-month adoption levels of 1.2% easily."
Re:Always with the jabs (Score:5, Informative)
The Android process is OTA, same as iOS - and, unlike iOS, it has been that way since forever. Your phone will tell you that there is an update via the notification drawer. You tap the notification, it asks if you want to install it. You tap "yes", then go make some coffee, and in about 5 minutes or so your phone is updated.
Re:Comparing 2 different things... (Score:5, Informative)
Standalone Google Maps app is currently in review and should be released shortly. So no need to panic just yet :)
Good luck with Google (Score:4, Informative)
Apple maps is still a little raw. But I've had Google direct me to closed stores, and to THREE imaginary Arby's when driving through Nevada.
Apple maps will get better too, now that they are crowdsourcing map errors. That's what Google had to do also.
Re:Good luck with those new map service. (Score:5, Informative)
The RDF is strong here. Now Apple invented the mobile browser?
I guess Opera will be getting letters from Apple's lawyers for that ACID2 compliant SmartPhone browser that was available a whole year before the iPhone even launched.
Re:Good luck with those new map service. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Good luck with those new map service. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Good luck with those new map service. (Score:5, Informative)
The iOS app for google maps provides a map which shows your route and has two arrow buttons to switch back and forth between turn points. But there are neither voice directions nor "signs" where you have to drive, you have to derive all info from the top down view, which is basically unusable if you have to drive and navigate yourself.
This isn't turn by turn.
Re:Always with the jabs (Score:2, Informative)
If you don't, then you get updates same as iPhone does, via OTA - if they ever come.
Surely that's why the "theoretical" word came up. Because for most people the updates for Android never come.
That's the major reason why the adoption rate is pathetic compared with iOS.