Comments on: iOS 6 adoption by device: iPhone leads, iPod touch trails

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:09:43 +0000

I am pissed that google and apple have not considered the customer when they removed the YouTube app with the IOS 6 upgrade. 3/4 of the time I get an error that I cannot view the video on my freaking new IPad. Next tablet I buy will have to be thought through more thoroughly.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:53:42 +0000

I’m still on 5.1.1, iPad 2. I will not be updating anytime soon. I have always used YouTube safari, the default YouTube app is just way to freaking slow, my dsl connection can handle Netflix and other streaming, but the YouTube app forces hd streaming. The safari YouTube version now displays the “Sorry this video is not available on this device.” …I think this is a google/YouTube thing. Might be there way of fighting back… it’s really annoying, can’t even use YouTube, I think it’s time for YouTube to get a competitor.

By: Jakerouse@hotmail.com

Jakerouse@hotmail.com — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:21:13 +0000

Having the same problems. YouTube doesn’t want to work. App Store is painfully slows when it works. And many sites don’t load or load randomly… If this stuff doesn’t get fixed soon, it might be time to jump off the apple ship

By: Bruce Kiefer

Bruce Kiefer — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:00:57 +0000

I wish I had not down loaded ISO6 on my iPad. Really miss the You Tube app. With history. Been trying to view videos on You Tube, they won’t open! Says “Sorry this video is not available on this device.” Want my old operating system back, or money back for iPad. NOT HAPPY!
Bruce from Wisconsin

By: Robert Milner

Robert Milner — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:17:06 +0000

My sons one year old iPod can’t be updated because it has no memory left to download the software update. 8gb iPods are nearly useless now days. That’s why he’s getting a new one this year for his birthday.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:44:11 +0000

I have a jail broken iPod

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:31:35 +0000

That’s insane. Hardly any iPod touches are jailbroken.

By: Bregalad Fangorn

Bregalad Fangorn — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:51:17 +0000

The rate of adoption and OS distribution charts make perfect sense.
Many iPhones are replaced every 2 years so all but a few active users are iOS 6 compatible.
The iPod touch, on the other hand, is generally kept in the family until it’s no longer useful to anyone. All non-current 8GB iPod touches are limited to iOS 4.2.1 at most.
All iPads can run iOS 5 and the two most recent models can run 6. Most iPads will be kept until they break so the OS distribution for them will eventually look the similar to the iPod touch one: users spread across 3 different major OS versions.

I don’t believe Frank’s assertion that most touches are jailbroken. They are a mass market device and the general public doesn’t know jailbreaking even exists.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:29:33 +0000

I think hardware does have something to do with it, but I bet the bigger reason is because most iPod Touch users Jailbreak their devices. There’s no big incentive to lose your jailbreak by upgrading to iOS 6 since there’s no untethered Jailbreak for it yet.