iPhone and iPod Touch app statistics: OS adoption, purchasing rates 2
When developing apps for the iPhone, there are a few lasting decisions you’ll need to make with regards to overall application architecture. These generally have to do with API and core features available in the new version 3.0 iPhone operating system that don’t exist in version 2.2 and lower. One such example is Core Data.
Our startup company needed to decide if we were going to write our apps for the 3.0 OS only or support the older OS versions as well. But we wanted to make an informed decision, so I went hunting for data.
Luckily, AdMob has collected a lot of this data in their monthly reports. Here are a few facts that I’ve gleaned.
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