Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more)

Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by pooriaazimi on Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:26PM (#5507668)

Relevant: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats

    All platforms (on iOS 6): 87%
    iPhone: 93%
    iPad: 78%
    iPod touch: 80%

I'm a bit surprised as to why % of iPads running iOS 6 is so low. I mean, IIRC ~150M iPads were sold, and only 12M of them were iPad 1. But I guess his app (Audiobooks) is not a good representative of what people do with their iPads, so I take his numbers (about the iPad) with a grain of salt.

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by yodaiken on Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:39PM (#5507728)

Aren't there a lot of institutional iPad users (schools, etc)?

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by alooPotato on Sunday April 07, 2013 @01:01PM (#5507797)

I think its because the first gen iPads are still very useful but they don't support iOS6. Where as my 3GS iPhone does.

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by melling on Sunday April 07, 2013 @01:46PM (#5507950)

According to the article:

"Interesting that first iPad can be pretty much ignored now (1.5%), whereas iPad 2 is still more popular than any of the later iPad models."

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by zaphoyd on Sunday April 07, 2013 @05:06PM (#5508762)

I've purposely kept my iPad on 5.x because iOS 5 maps is the only iPad maps application that works well with public transit routing. iOS 6 maps doesn't do public transit at all, Google Maps and all the good third party transit routing apps are iPhone only.

Also a bunch of the new iOS 6 features (like Passbook, photo panorama, certain geofences, and the updated phone app) are not available at all on iPads. Siri (maybe?) and IPv6 over LTE are the only iOS 6 features I feel I am missing on the iPad so I am in no huge hurry to upgrade.

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by potatolicious on Sunday April 07, 2013 @02:47PM (#5508154)

I work on a pretty darned popular iOS app - these numbers are representative of what we've seen here also. iOS6 uptake on iPad lags substantially behind iPhone.

I can speculate on the reasoning but it's still a mystery. The sales of iPad 1's (which aren't compatible with iOS6) definitely contribute to the low numbers, but they do not explain the whole story.

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by danenania on Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:32PM (#5507695)

My guess would be that iPhones get used a lot more frequently.

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Re:Mobile Hardware Statistics (and more) by kmfrk on Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:42PM (#5507746)

iPhones are also used in a much more personal context, whereas corporations, hospitals, schools, and shops use iPads for more general purposes.

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