Apple Highlights Low Fragmentation Among iOS Devices in Direct Jab at AndroidApple recently updated its "Optimizing Apps for iOS 6"developer page with a new pie chart highlighting the lack of fragmentation among iOS versions being run on active mobile devices (via AppleInsider). According to the chart, 93% of iOS devices accessing the App Store over a two-week period ending on June 3 were running some version of iOS 6, with 6% running iOS 5 and just 1% running earlier versions of the operating system software. Apple's chart appears to be a direct jab at Google, which has long published its own pie chart that currently shows just 33% of devices visiting the Google Play store over the same time period running the company's latest Android 4.1-4.2 Jelly Bean versions, which began appearing last July. In fact, the most popular version of Android remains 2.3.x Gingerbread, which first appeared in December 2010. Apple executives have increasingly focused on Android's fragmentation as a major weakness of the platform, with developers having to target many different versions of Android and numerous different devices with their apps. Apple contrasts that experience with developing for iOS, which supports a limited number of display sizes and for which the vast majority of users are running the most recent major version. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Another Working Apple 1 Heads to Auction with $500,000 Estimate • Tokyo Court Says Samsung Infringed Apple 'Bounce Back' Patent • 'Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage' is Rovio Publishing's First Game • Nomad 3-Inch Apple Certified Lightning Cable Now Shipping • Algoriddim Drops Price on Video Mashup App 'Vjay' to Free • Best Buy to Relaunch iPhone 4/4S Trade-Ins for 'Free' iPhone 5 • Best Buy Recalls Third-Party MacBook Batteries Over Fire Risk • Famed Designer Richard Sapper Was Once Recruited by Steve Jobs
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