Apple has published on its official website for developers statistics on the prevalence of versions of the mobile platform iOS. As of may 9, 2016 84% of mobile devices Apple, which came in the online store App Store, running the new iOS 9. Note that this parameter is not changed in comparison with the figures almost a month ago.
11 percent of devices are based on iOS 8, and the remaining 5 per cent on earlier versions of the mobile OS. A similar stagnation was observed in the winter — as of February 22, iOS 9 was 77 percent, unchanged from February 8, what has caused concern to analysts and fans of Apple. But then, “stagnation” was successfully overcome — in April the share of the adoption of the latest version of iOS has increased by seven percentage points compared with February.
Recall that the release of iOS 9 was held on September 19 and September 21, the company has already reported about overcoming an important milestone — more than 50 percent of all active Apple mobile devices are running iOS 9. As of 19 October, this figure reached 61%.
Note that the speed of user adoption of iOS 9 iOS 8 bypassed. Four months after the release of iOS 8 has been installed on 68% of active devices. iOS 9 is almost equal to the level of iOS 7, which after release in 2013 for four months scored 79%.
For comparison, in early February, the statistics on the prevalence of various versions of the Android operating system on the official site for Android developers Developers finally revealed the surpass 1% in the latest version of Android — Android 6.0 Marshmallow, With Android 6.0 Marshmallow began to spread on 5 October 2015.