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Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store

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Re: Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store

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Post by hmottestad »

dataxpress wrote: post #16

When you have a million users, 70,000 of them is a pretty big number to neglect. edit: numbers

Neglect might not be the right term.

Usually older devices are on older OS because they can't update. If they can update and haven't then it will probably be because they don't know how or because they don't want to.

If your app needs features in iOS 6 to run, then so be it. If not then make it runnable on iOS 5 and 4.

If your app used to work on iOS 4, but some new features require iOS 5, then your old customers won't get any more updates but should still be able to use the app. Those stuck on iOS 4 wanting to buy your app won't be able to.

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Post by jvzr »

junto wrote: post #30

I've left my iPad on iOS 5, because I still assume that I'll lose the Google Maps integration if I upgrade. Is that assumption still correct?

There is a Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad. It's better than the old one, but isn't as integrated as before (i.e. it isn't the default map app).

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Post by Aqua_Geek »

junto wrote: post #30

I've left my iPad on iOS 5, because I still assume that I'll lose the Google Maps integration if I upgrade. Is that assumption still correct?

Depends on what you mean by "integration." Google Maps is now a standalone app available (from Google) in the App Store, but it does have quite a different interface from Maps on iOS 5.

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Post by danielsamuels »

coryl wrote: post #23
robin_reala wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get to this page even as a non-registered developer.

Weird, it prompted me to log in.

Yeah, but you can just use a standard Apple account, you don't need to be a developer.

Re: Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store

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Post by Aqua_Geek »

MaxGabriel wrote: post #12
kmonsen wrote: post #4

As measured by the App store. I would be surprised if the general population is the same distribution. People who go often to the app store probably update more often. Still for developers it is a relevant number.

Everyone I've seen has very similar numbers: https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_frag http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ http://stats.unity3d.com/mobile/index-ios.html David Smith's numbers throw a few more percentage points to iOS 5, but he's a smaller sample size and his stats are two weeks old. Unity is similar, but it looks from the UI that their data is generated monthly. Mixpanel's are the most up-to-d…

> Mixpanel's are the most up-to-date and their numbers mirror Apple's.

I just noticed this at the bottom of Mixpanel's graph:

   THIS REPORT WAS GENERATED FROM 79,977,999,480 RECORDS.
That's quite the large dataset – 80B records!

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Post by gurkendoktor »

dataxpress wrote: post #16

When you have a million users, 70,000 of them is a pretty big number to neglect. edit: numbers

Case in point - iTunes is Apple's only OS X app which still officially supports OS X 10.6. If there's money to be made, Apple suddenly doesn't mind the maintenance :)

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Post by nimeshneema »

junto wrote: post #30

I've left my iPad on iOS 5, because I still assume that I'll lose the Google Maps integration if I upgrade. Is that assumption still correct?

Google announced of it's plans to roll out it's Maps app for iPad during summer 2013

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/15/google-shows-off-upcomin...

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Post by saurik »

mh- wrote: post #6
kmonsen wrote: post #4

As measured by the App store. I would be surprised if the general population is the same distribution. People who go often to the app store probably update more often. Still for developers it is a relevant number.

I have this same argument about the Android numbers presented by Google. But as another reply to your post already pointed out, these are the numbers that are probably the most relevant to a would-be app creator.

The problem is that this biases the statistics due to the 14-day window: everyone who buys a new iPhone goes to the App Store in order to download some "staple apps", but after the unitial setup a lot of users might only go to the App Store every three weeks (for example), meaning that newly purchased devices will be over-represented in the statics, and they all have iOS 6.

Honestly, though: even correcting for this new-device bias, this still isn't what you care about... normal users don't sit around browsing the App Store or the Android Market... they open the app when they are interested in a specific download because of some external sale having occurred. Your market as a developer are "people with a device", not "people weird enough to try searching on their device".

Regardless, though, yeah: the reason Apple is showing this statistic is because it is the identical metric reported by Google, and they were making a big deal about these numbers during the WWDC keynote, even to the extent of pointing out that Google had changed the metric in this way (to Market visits) was cheating... comparing, though, the like metrics isn't that bad.

Re: Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store

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Post by Angostura »

kmonsen wrote: post #4

As measured by the App store. I would be surprised if the general population is the same distribution. People who go often to the app store probably update more often. Still for developers it is a relevant number.

Indeed, it strikes me as a self selecting sample I have an First gen iPod Touch that I still use quite a lot, which can only run ioS 3.x - oddly enough, I don;t buy anything from the Appstore for it because there are hardly any new apps that will run on it.

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Post by sluukkonen »

jvzr wrote: post #32
junto wrote: post #30

I've left my iPad on iOS 5, because I still assume that I'll lose the Google Maps integration if I upgrade. Is that assumption still correct?

There is a Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad. It's better than the old one, but isn't as integrated as before (i.e. it isn't the default map app).

Small correction: the iPad version isn't out yet, but apparently they're releasing it this summer.
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