According to a chart posted on Apple’s developer website, iOS 7 is now installed on 74 percent of all active mobile devices manufactured by the tech giant. iOS 6 still powers 22 percent of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch models out there, while the remaining 4 percentlikely older hardware that can no longer be upgradedare on “other” versions of the operating system.
As several publications have noted, this means that the adoption of Apple’s latest operating system has jumped by nearly ten percentage points in the last month, making it the fastest-growing version of iOS ever. That’s been helped, at least in part, by the company’s tradition of supporting several generations of hardware with every update.Quick growth and fast adoption
Although Apple does not make historical information about operating system adoption available, mobile tracking firm Fiksu notes that iOS 6 was only installed on about 70 percent of devices the same number of days after its release, while iOS 5 was only able to make its way onto 65 percent of hardware.
These numbers are even more impressive once you realize that they represent percentages of an ever-growing number of overall hardware devices. Back in September, while announcing that it had sold 9 million new iPhones, Apple indicated that some 200 million users30 percent of the totalhad already updated their existing phones to iOS 7, which means that today’s 74 percent translates to over half a billion devicesand that’s based on an overall figure that doesn’t even consider the devices that Apple has sold in the last three months.
Read also:
iOS 7 Adoption at 74 Percent (PC Magazine)
iOS 7 now powers 3 out of 4 Apple devices (Computerworld)
iOS 7 Adoption Already at 74 Percent (AllThingsD)
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