by As hard as it may be to believe, all of the hubbub that surrounded the release of the iPhone 5s now stands over a month behind us. Apple’s flagship smartphone and its colorful sidekick the iPhone 5c are now firmly on their way to burrowing their own niche in Apple’s landscape, but how many of Apple’s users have the devices actually reached? As MacRumors reports, Localytics has some fascinating information for us in that regard.
According to the firm’s research, the two devices combined represent 5.5 percent of all actively used iPhones. Broken down, the iPhone 5s holds a growing 3.8 percent share of that figure, while the scrappy iPhone 5c is slowly closing the gap with a 1.7 percent share.
Source: Localytics
Impressive, but the devices still have a way to go before they catch up with their established predecessors. Localytics’ findings show that the iPhone 5 still commands an impressive 39.8 percent share, while the iPhone 4s pulls in 32.9 percent. The aging iPhone 4 even still holds its own with a 20.2 percent share.
Localytic’s data also reveals some interesting information about who’s actually adopting the new devices. Japan, for instance, has embraced the new devices more completely than any of the other iPhone hotspot countries, as almost 10 percent of the country’s iPhone users own either an iPhone 5s or an iPhone 5c. Compare that to the United States, which only comes in at 6.49 percent, although that’s still ahead of the global average of 5.5 percent.
Localytics’ data comes from its own measurements of mobile and web app usage across more than 40 million iPhones.
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