Apple’s iOS has always reached devices faster than Android, thanks to the fact that iOS is iOS, while Android has different levels of manufacturer skins that need to be adapted to new versions. No doubt it also helps that Apple makes both hardware and software.
So when you hear iOS 71, first released last September, is now available on 23% of iPhones. If we were limited to iPhones launched in the past few years, this number would grow to 799%.
13% of iPhones (and 8% released in the last four years) run iOS 13, the rest Partially starts some earlier versions.
On the tablet side of the fence, 71% of all iPads are already on iPadOS 18, followed by 20% running iPadOS 13. For iPads released within the past four years, iPadOS 16 again gained 71% market share, followed by iPadOS 13 vs. 16%.
for comparison , the latest data from Google came back in April and they show that Android 13 (latest version, launched last August) reached 05% of all devices.
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