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And the biggest feature of 7.1 is that within a few weeks 4 out of 5 iOS users will be running 7.1.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/01/apple-80-percent-of-act...

Although if there are no new APIs, I'm not sure why anyone but Apple would care if users were on 7.0 or 7.1.

We, developers, care, because we can check on 7.1 mainly, and we know that the vast majority of users will be having the same experience.

True, and I'm sure there are API bug fixes in 7.1 that developers want people to have.

Given that Apple still sells an 16GB iPhone (for some baffling reason) I wonder what percentage of users will not have the necessary 4GB of unused space.

Anecdotally, Several of my officemates have had this issue.

It actually needs 2.5 GB to install (it won't use it after the installation, obviously).

I only needed to have 1.9GB of free space on my iPhone 5.

Not sure that would be baffling - that's the model everyone I know has (including myself).

Sorry for being confusing - I don't disagree it's popular model. What I don't understand is why Apple's baseline model has 16GB. It seems like flash memory can be had very cheaply - Amazon shows several examples of 64GB MicroSD cards for ~ $25.

It would seem like starting their base model at 64GB would be very consumer-friendly, and have a very low cost.

My wife has a 16Gb iPad mini retina. It had 5G free on it. It really depends what you do. 16Gb is probably enough for most people.

My kids though had about 50Mb free each.

You can obviously update from iTunes, without any such constraint.

With my 2.1 GB of unused space I had no issue installing this update. It's a delta update so the size will vary. Mine requested about 200 some MB if I'm not mistaken.

About 9 out of 10 now...

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7

Apple says 82%, and I figure they are the most accurate: https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/

Not upgrading until there's a working jailbreak.

I am still holding on to my iOS 6. I don't like all this watered down, colorless and flat UI experience.

But it doesn't matter to software developers, especially small developers. Catering to jailbroken phones and people who don't like iOS7 is an opportunity cost that would only hurt. It's almost always better to use the new API's, along with bug fixes in the latest version.

Me too, and most apps are still compatible with iOS 6+. I am a fan of "skeuomorphism". As Steve Jobs died and Scott Forstall had to leave Apple. I am no so fond of Mr. Cook's and Ive's design choices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph#Arguments_for_skeuom...

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