At the end of March this year, Apple announced that the users 80% of compatible devices, I switched to the ninth version of the mobile operating system iOS. Less than a month the share of iOS 9 has increased to 84%.
Previously to the conquest of the previous two percent of the OS it took more than a month. It turns out that due to some reasons of the popularity of iOS 9 was beginning to grow more rapidly. Observers attribute this to the release of the iOS update 9.3, which introduced a Night Shift mode.
The share of iOS 8, which a year after its release was set at 87% of compatible devices before the advent of iOS 9 in September 2015, is now down to 11%. Another 5% of users are followers of the old versions of iOS.
It should be noted that “nine” is gaining popularity faster than iOS 8, the share of which increased to 77% after nine months after the release.
Against the backdrop of Apple’s OS adoption rate of Android 6.0 Marshmallow looks not so optimistic. This platform was released three weeks after the appearance of iOS 9, but its market share of devices with Android is only 4.6%.
Palm keeps Android Lollipop with a total share of 35,8%, while the share of Android 5.1 is higher than Android 5.0 (19.4 per cent against 16.4 per cent). On the second place in popularity is 4.4 KitKat. By operating system, released three years ago, works every third Android device on the market (33,4).
