The critical difference is once a new version of iOS is released Apple stop distributing the old one (with a slight exception when the iPad first came out, and was on 3.2).
Only today Samsung have announced some new handsets at MWC that still run Gingerbread...
The problem with these comparisons is that people take the rollout date of the end user operating system iOS and compare it to the first release date of the first OS based on a new version of Android.
Since iOS has no cross platform component similar to Android, it would make more sense to compare it to Google's Nexus OS or to Samsung's Galaxy OS.
I think the term "operating system" is so generic that it confuses a lot of people in these discussions. To many people and most tech journalists, the operating system is all software in a device before you install additional software. And by this definition, Android is not an operating system.
natesm|14 years ago
AllenKids|14 years ago
objclxt|14 years ago
Only today Samsung have announced some new handsets at MWC that still run Gingerbread...
falling|14 years ago
and all supported devices can get the update on release day by clicking a button.
bookwormAT|14 years ago
Since iOS has no cross platform component similar to Android, it would make more sense to compare it to Google's Nexus OS or to Samsung's Galaxy OS.
I think the term "operating system" is so generic that it confuses a lot of people in these discussions. To many people and most tech journalists, the operating system is all software in a device before you install additional software. And by this definition, Android is not an operating system.
falling|14 years ago
http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-all-iPhone-owners-us...
http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi...
for reference, iOS 5 was released October 12, Ice Cream Sandwich on October 19.
fpgeek|14 years ago