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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:42:17+00:00

Until recently, I have been happily ignoring iOS5 SDK because its new features aren’t

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Until recently, I have been happily ignoring iOS5 SDK because its new features aren’t really essential to the products I’m working on. Also, third-party tools (e.g. Corona SDK) don’t support it until it’s officially out, because part of the NDA you have to agree to before you can download the SDK beta says “you can’t talk about it publicly”.

But now that it’s officially out, and officially supported by third-party tools, I feel that I have to start working on it. Not yet urgently, but soon.

If the feature set of the latest iOS version is not a consideration, and my only objective is to “target the platform where the most iOS users are”, when should I target iOS 5? Up to when should I support iOS 4? iOS 3?

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    Since iOS 5 is free and it has killer features, it is being adopted fast.

    Localytics analyzes usage of software by embedding their code in the desired application. After collecting the usage and download data, and by putting the resulting data into different metrics they get the relevant information and provide it to their client. This way an application manufacturer can have a full report on the usage of its application, in various type of users, usage patterns, usage durations and so on.

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    As we know iPhone 4S comes built in with iOS 5. So this can produce dissonance in the results. Surprisingly, not so much, when they removed iPhone 4S from the chart, the percentage of active iOS 5 users dropped to 31%. This result shows a very fast adoption rate.

    http://www.encyclocell.com/top-news/ios-5-used-by-1-in-3-apple-devices

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