A point-one upgrade in an Apple mobile phone's operating system doesn't seem to give much, but latest data on the iOS 7.1 upgrade interestingly shows otherwise.
For one, there are significantly lesser crashes on the apps on iPhone and iPad as compared to the previous versions of the said operating system. TechRadar.com reports the crash rate of apps on iOS 7.1 went down to 1.6%, based on the performance monitoring firm Crittercism, as opposed to the above-two percent crash rates of iOS 6, iOS 6.1 and iOS 7 versions. According to Recode.net, regardless of a known bug causing some systems to reboot, there's only a total of 2.1 percent of app crashes in iOS 7, said to be lower than the versions of iOS 6 or 6.1.
With disconcerting issues such as finger-scanner hacks and buggy-lock screens, iOS 7 started rough and tough but finally found fixes for those issues. The minor update also brought about a much better Siri and Touch ID integration that includes improved fingerprint memory, as well as an added functionality for the just-announced CarPlay feature. The update on the iPhone 5s also allows HDR photography from the get go as well as allows the built-in Calendar to show events by month.
Adoption rates - as expected with most minor version updates - are less dramatic compared to its major-version counterparts, says online advertising network Chitika. But its recent data also reveals how Apple users are quickly embracing the iOS 7, together with the improvement in performance numbers.
Debuting in the early afternoon on March 10, 2014, the point-one upgrade initially generated a 5.9 percent usage share from the overall North American iOS Web traffic 24 hours after its official release, before reaching a full 12 percent usage share 45 hours later. Such growth in usage shares is largely similar with the iOS 7.0.6 version that generated a 13.3 percent share two days after public debut.
Two days after Apple released the new operating system, Chitika also placed at 12 percent the number of updated iOS devices accessing its ad network. Crittercism supported this saying iOS 6 users who were on hold for an iOS 7 upgrade eventually moved to iOS 7.1.
Apparently, not everyone is that happy of the new update. A review by The Financial Express claims there was no shock-and-awe factor to it because everything looked the same - till the first phone ring came after the update. The answer button became Androidish-looking with its red and green buttons, as opposed to its previous rectangular swipe. Call screen buttons such as 'Remind Me' and 'Message' were nowhere to be found as well. The call buttons, when one makes a call, are now a green circle instead of a rectangle one. Other changes are in its Siri and Weather apps, and that most changes are on its designs that have not much impact in user's life.
"Well, I did not find anything that made me jump up in joy, except for the fact that my phone it a tad bit faster now. But I suggest you go ahead with the upgrade as there is nothing wrong with the version. I would have loved some really new features, instead of minor bug fixes and design tweaks," Nandagopal Rajan of The Financial Express says in his review.
Kioskea.net likewise says other users are far more concerned of battery and charging issues brought about by the minor update. An iPhone user laments, "My iPhone 5S battery seem to drain much faster than usual, and charge longer. My battery drains to 50 [percent] within an hour or so after intense use on the lowest level of brightness."
