The latest version of iOS is on 87% of devices, according to iDownloadBlog, in stark comparison to 15% of Android users being on the latest version of Android. You must consider, however, that Android has more users, where the latest official numbers indicate that iOS has 1 billion active users where Android has at least 1.4 billion active users. So for developers targeting customers, the latest and greatest iOS is on 870 million devices and the latest and greatest version of Android is on 210 million devices. When you also consider that iOS users spend 4X as much on platform, it really becomes difficult to justify starting a business on Android.
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“So for developers targeting customers, the latest and greatest iOS is on 87 million devices and the latest and greatest version of Android is on 21 million devices. ”
Wouldn’t that be “… iOS is on 870 million devices and the latest and greatest version of Android is on 210 million devices.”? Your math seems to be off by an order of magnitude.
Yes, I missed a very significant digit, thank you.