2.2 and 2.3 currently represent about 90% of the market. From an API standpoint, these are very similar. Is iOS really that much less fragmented in real-world terms?
The dramatic variations in hardware are actually a much more interesting problem than the supposed issue of OS version fragmentation, IMO.
So it takes about a year for near 100% adoption of the iOS version, too? So what's the complaining about Android, then? In a year the new version can get about 75%, which is not that bad.
> iOS 5 captured approximately 75% of all iOS users in the same
> amount of time it took Gingerbread to get 4% of all Android
> users. Even more astounding is that 15 weeks after launch
> iOS 4 was at 70% and iOS 5 was at 60% while Ice Cream Sandwich
> got to just 1% share at the same age.
The dramatic variations in hardware are actually a much more interesting problem than the supposed issue of OS version fragmentation, IMO.