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Relevant: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats

    All platforms (on iOS 6): 87%
    iPhone: 93%
    iPad: 78%
    iPod touch: 80%

I'm a bit surprised as to why % of iPads running iOS 6 is so low. I mean, IIRC ~150M iPads were sold, and only 12M of them were iPad 1. But I guess his app (Audiobooks) is not a good representative of what people do with their iPads, so I take his numbers (about the iPad) with a grain of salt.

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Aren't there a lot of institutional iPad users (schools, etc)?

I think its because the first gen iPads are still very useful but they don't support iOS6. Where as my 3GS iPhone does.

According to the article:

"Interesting that first iPad can be pretty much ignored now (1.5%), whereas iPad 2 is still more popular than any of the later iPad models."

I've purposely kept my iPad on 5.x because iOS 5 maps is the only iPad maps application that works well with public transit routing. iOS 6 maps doesn't do public transit at all, Google Maps and all the good third party transit routing apps are iPhone only.

Also a bunch of the new iOS 6 features (like Passbook, photo panorama, certain geofences, and the updated phone app) are not available at all on iPads. Siri (maybe?) and IPv6 over LTE are the only iOS 6 features I feel I am missing on the iPad so I am in no huge hurry to upgrade.

I work on a pretty darned popular iOS app - these numbers are representative of what we've seen here also. iOS6 uptake on iPad lags substantially behind iPhone.

I can speculate on the reasoning but it's still a mystery. The sales of iPad 1's (which aren't compatible with iOS6) definitely contribute to the low numbers, but they do not explain the whole story.

My guess would be that iPhones get used a lot more frequently.

iPhones are also used in a much more personal context, whereas corporations, hospitals, schools, and shops use iPads for more general purposes.

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