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Could someone please describe this graph in detail? Unfortunately there are no numbers to go along with it which is challenging for those like me who are totally blind.


This is a bar chart of iOS6 adoption over time.

It starts at September 1st 2012 on left and ends at October 16th on the right, with a bar for each day that indicates what percentage of their users were running iOS6 on that day. The days are labeled terribly so none of the dates I'm about to give are exact.

From September 1st to around September 18th very few of their users ran iOS6. It's hard to tell because the graph is incredibly coarse but at most, 2% of their users were using iOS6. The graph points out that these were the beta testers.

The official launch is labeled, and on that day iOS6 adoption soars. On around September 21st, just a few days after the iOS6 launch, already 35% of their users were running iOS6. By September 25th, a little less than 50% were.

On October 2 the adoption rate jumps to the highest shown on the graph, a little under 70%. The next day it sinks down to 60%, and the next day it sinks back down to 52.5%.

For the last few weeks of data starting on October 6th, the adoption rate stays steady at around 55 or 57%.


The graph shows percentage of users having installed iOS6, one bar per day. The bars are very close to 1-2% in early september (beta testers), then around the release 19th of September, the bars quickly rise each day: 30%, 35%, 45%, 47%, 50%, and from there on a quite steady (but jumpy) rise towards about 60% today. There's one weird peak at about 1st of October at about 65%, but that's probably just happenstance.

Edit: The difference in the numbers me and the fellow who posted just at the same time shows how coarse the percentage-axis was ;)


I think I like yours better. Much more succinct, with pretty much the same data.


Thanks to both of you for your descriptions.


Sorry there are %'s on left axis, it goes from 0% at the bottom to 70% at the top.




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