In this chart from Patently Apple, iOS 7 is sitting at 51.8% penetration just one week into its life. In contrast, iOS 6 was only at 47% seven days past its launch. One year later, and Apple has gotten even better at pushing forward.
This data from Mixpanel has iOS 7 adoption at 60.8%, iOS 6 at 35.53%, and all older versions combined at 3.67%. Impressive, right? In a single week, Apple has been able to convince the majority of its mobile customers to update to a drastically redesigned operating system.
Sadly, Android isn’t doing quite as well with its newest versions. Android 4.2.x (Jelly Bean) is only at 8.5% penetration on Android devices, and that launched in November of last year. Android 4.3 didn’t even make it to 1% in time to be counted on this chart. Hell, Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) still holds a shocking 30.7% install base, and it’s over two years old now. Even though Google seems to be working hard to reduce the impact of fragmentation, it still has a lot of work ahead of itself.
On the desktop side, things are even worse. When you look at usage of Windows versions, the landscape looks grim. Windows 8 launched over a year ago, and it only holds 8.12% of total Windows installs. Windows XP — a 12 year-old operating system — still has a 36.89% share. Yikes! It’s no surprise, though. Mobile devices are the hot thing, and traditional computers aren’t drawing the same kind of excitement anymore.
Despite Apple’s amazing success in the world of mobile devices, it’s not quite as successful in pushing forward with Mac OS X. Even though the upgrades are increasingly affordable, the 14 month-old Mountain Lion only has a 47.17% share of OS X installs. It’s not quite as bad as Microsoft’s situation, but it’s clear that Apple can do better. Perhaps Mavericks will be the first version of OS X to be available free of cost on the App Store. That would certainly be something to write home about.
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