OTA Updates Make Android Owners Upgrade Quicker Than iPhone Customers
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Posted September 15, 2010 at 10:59am by iClarified
Over-the-air upgrades make Android customers upgrade their operating system much sooner than iPhone customers, according to a study by Localytics.
Two weeks into the upgrade cycle, almost twice as many Droid users had upgraded to Android 2.2 than iPhone 3GS users who upgraded to Apple iOS 4. The reason? iPhone upgrades require connecting your phone to your computer. Which raises another question, will Apple eventually offer over-the-air upgrades to iPhones and (especially) iPads?
Comparing the rollout of iOS 4 and Android Froyo 2.2, Localytics found that by the end of the first two weeks, 96% of Droids had upgraded to 2.2 while just 56% of 3GS owners had updated to iOS 4. Two months after the release of iOS 4, over 20% of iPhone 3GS users still haven’t upgraded to iOS 4.
Agree with everything everyone has posted thus far.
Who makes these studies? Clearly people refuse to upgrade until they know for a fact that there is a clear jailbreak and unlock for their device.
Only people that actually upgrade their device each time i new firmware is out, are the.....uhhhh, non-jailbreakers (those do exist as crazy as it may sound).
Key reasons for this are that, when offered a choice, many choose not to risk loading a newer firmware onto a phone that's already working. They've been bitten by new bugs being introduced with new software and would rather wait for others to pronounce things safe first. For jailbreakers, the problem goes further - waiting until the new OS has been jailbroken.
If you count the number of phone users of a given OS on a relatively new version of the OS, not just how many phones eligible for the upgrade are on it, the story would be different. Android takes a long time for upgrades to pass along the chain from Google through phone manufacturer's tweaks to the carrier testing the OS. Look at the time between announcement of Android 2.2 to half the phones having it compared to the same metric for iOS 4.1.
This is stupid I haven't upgraded to 4.1 because of the jailbreak. If I the jailbreak got out the same day as the software update I would definitely update the same day.
This has no sense.
i agree this is stupid a ota update for a iphone is usually hundreds of megs even with wifi it is slower then downloading it straight off a pc that is no reason the android people update more often im on iphone 4 version 4.01 i havent updated to 4.02 or 4.1 because ill lose my jb which i have free tethering and i can facetime over 3g which does suck tho
and i can create hotspots so ota updates make andriod quicker then iphone is absurd!
Please. This study is ridiculous. While it would be nice for Apple to offer OTA updates, I don't believe for a second that the lack for OTA updates is what is causing people to not upgrade to iOS4. There are many other reasons why people have not yet upgraded to iOS4 and the lack of OTA updates is way down on that list.
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