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iOS 5 times faster than Android on the velocity of propagation of updates

Currently, the latest version of the operating system Apple – iOS 8 is installed on 85% of iOS devices, according to statistics from the online store App Store. The introduction of the new platform, released in September 2014, although far ahead of Android, the last time slows down compared with April, when iOS 8 was installed on 81% of all iOS devices, the level of adaptazii OS grew by only 4%.

For comparison, the share of Android Lollipop almost a year after the announcement is only 18%. The extra time to explain what caused it, makes no sense. Differentiation of Google is both an advantage and a major disadvantage at the same time.

Although fragmentation does not affect the popularity of Android, it complicates life for users and developers of games and applications. So for the benefit of all, Google needs to make the update process smoother OS, I guess browsers Cnet.

The Apple approach to this issue is completely different, due to the presence in the company’s portfolio of one or two new smartphones in the year. Share the previous version of the operating system – iOS 7 – is 13%. Another 2% of Apple devices are running older versions of the Apple operating system.

By the way, these data can be compared with the results last year. For example, in may 2014, the share of iOS 7 was 90% for smartphones and 85% for tablets. This means that this year, the iPhone and iPad are some less actively passed to a new version of the system. Next month users will be able to iOS 9.

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