iPod touch users,
iPhone and iPad choose the mostoften to puttheir
devices up to date withlatest iOS availablevery
quickly after its release.
This notable difference compared to the Android marketfacilitates the
viedevelopers and ensures a better user experience
as well as a group spirit:
In the absence of official figures (Apple does not communicate on its basis
installed) Chris Sauve, the author of this study, usedes
information from developersthemselves. He thus has the
version of iOS installed on user machines of a
fifty applications. The iOS were then grouped
parmajor versions(3.x, 4.x and 5.x).
Here are theconclusionsthat he draws from it, to compare with his
Previous Android Market Analysis:
- switching to a new version of the system is very
frequent: we note that the more the new iOS gains shares of
market and the more the previous version declines A less marked trend with
Android.
- the transition to a new iOS is done very quickly:
Over the same period iOS 5 reached 75% of the fleet when Gingerbread reached
only 4%. After fifteen weeks iOS 4 reached 70%, iOS 5 at 60% but
Ice Scream Sandwich at only 1% (not shown in chart).
- In order to model the adoption of a new iOS, the author
was based on all the versions to offer this practical model for
developers. We observe a strong trend: 25% installation in
less than a week, a little less than 50% in six weeks, with a loss of 3% per
week for older versions.
- the adoption of a new iOS is much faster than that of a
new android version: iOS reaches an installation rate of
10% 300 times faster than Android. At 30% 19 times faster. At 50% 7 times more
quickly.
The author also believes that a developer wanting to target only devices under
iOS 5 will have a market of 170 million units, to compare with
112 millions pour Gingerbread d’Android.
He concluded that on the developer side the key to iOS success isvery
low fragmentationof the installed base. A broad and unified base
facilitates developmentand tests and limits
risks.
The Android market seems more developed around technical specifications
(with outbidding from manufacturers) while the iOS market revolves around
software anduser experience. And like many
of iOS users have the same device and the same functionalities there is a
very marked community effect which promotes exchange, enthusiasm and
success of Apple brand devices.Circle
virtuous.
Finally, Chris Sauve predicts aacceleration of the trend
now that iOS can be updated without connecting to a computer
(Over The Air, OTA).
We will quickly know if the next iOS (5.1?) will follow the model
propose.
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