We are around 48 hours away from Apple taking the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater to unveil iOS 14, its next-gen mobile OS, at WWDC 2020. Rumors also suggest iOS being renamed back to iPhone OS at the event. In preparation for the same, Apple has today released the distribution figures for iOS 13. It’s as expected and ready to take another jab at the paltry reach of Android’s latest release.
Now, we all know that Apple’s product ecosystem is a walled garden. Everything from a software feature to hardware internals, all of it is managed and optimized by Apple. So, this makes it simpler for the company to maintain a standard and make its mobile OS available to more devices and that too rapidly. It does not have to rely on a third-party OEMs, which is the case with Android.
Android is open-source, we all should know that by now, and phone makers have the freedom to tweak and tinker with the software as per their needs. This caused a steep rise in custom ROMs, such as Xiaomi’s MIUI, Samsung’s OneUI, or Oppo’s ColorOS over the past few years. It has given users more options but it also contributed to the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem.
