A new research study is showing that iOS 4 is just about as popular as iPhone 4 itself. iOS 4 is running about 50% of iPhone traffic, according to AppleInsider.
Chitika Research grabbed its numbers by taking a peak from 9 million ad impressions that it had served to iPhone users that were running apps with Chitika banners. But because of that, it doesn't look at users with apps that don't run Chitika, so the numbers may be slightly skewed.
Just the same, the numbers showed that of the 50 percent running iOS 4, 10 percent made the switch to 4.0.1, which was released only a week ago.
For the other half of iPhone users with an earlier version of iOS, 60% run 3.1.3 which was the version just before iOS 4, or 29.9 percent of all iPhone users. Also, about 20 percent of all iPhone users have yet to make the switch on their handsets. One percent still use 2.0. Further, anyone still with 1.0 would not be running apps, and wouldn't be a part of Chitika's research.
In the other corner, Google says that 55.5 percent of Android users are still using Android 2.1. Only 3.3 percent of Androiders have the latest 2.2 Froyo version.
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July 23, 2010 at 4:10am
Until I realized JB'ing ios4 wasn't happening so I went back to 3.1.3. Thanks for the tutorial by the way!
