iOS 7 Adoption Rate Hits to 85% of Devices that Connected to Apple's App Store

Apple this week updated its App Store developer support page with a new chart indicating that 85 percent of iOS devices that connected to the App Store are running iOS 7. The numbers come five months after the operating system's original release, and two week after the major update to iOS 7.1, which contains tweaks, CarPlay support, and Touch ID enhancements.

In addition to iOS 6 users who eventually making the upgrade, there remains a good proportion the result of new iOS devices - with iOS 7 already pre-installed - being sold by the millions.

iOS 6 now installed on just 12 percent of devices. Three percent of devices also continue to use even older versions of iOS. the usage of new operating system iOS 7 was at 74 percent, jumping to 78 percent later in December. The adoption rate of iOS 7 appears to be much higher and faster than it's been for any other major iOS release.

Google also this month updated its own official developer statistics, its data showed that just 2.5 percent of Android devices are currently running latest version 4.4 "KitKat", while the most Android users are running variants of Jelly Bean, that was initially released back in July of 2012.

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