This year's WWDC 19 has been a bit of a mixed bag, with the extreme highs of iOS 13 preview and the laughable lows of the "cheese grater" Mac Pro design.
But more importantly, a fact that wasn't missed by a lot of fanboys was how Apple CEO Tim Cook embarrassed Google during the keynote, without even mentioning their name.
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During his keynote presentation at their annual worldwide developer conference earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook referred to Google as "those other guys" while calling out the difference between iOS and Android's adoption numbers.
According to Apple's estimate, iOS 12 has an adoption rate of 85% since it was launched in September 2018, while Android 9.0 Pie only has 10% adoption rate since its August 2018 official release.
If you think no one should Apple's estimate of Android adoption rate, you'd be surprised to know that Google itself confirmed the figure earlier in May, that the latest version of Android 9 Pie is only running on 10% of Android devices.
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This is a travesty for Google and Android's device journey, and a tremendous pat on the back of Apple's iOS operating system, which manages to always outpace Android year on year.
It's all down to Apple's tight control over hardware and software which enables them to pump out the latest version of iOS in record number of iPhones every year. Unfortunately, Android's fragmented nature, and dependence on device OEMs, prolongs the propagation of latest Android operating system to supported phones.
This has a direct impact on iPhone and Android users -- because of the quick iOS updates and support, iPhones have a higher shelf life compared to Android devices. To get the latest Android operating system, Android users most definitely have to get a new device altogether, if they don't have to wait overmuch.