With Apple's 2017 iPhones absent from the final list, this means the company will have dropped support for almost all devices running on its A11 Bionic chip.Īpple routinely drops support for older devices with every new edition of iOS and iPadOS – the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7 and iPad Air 2 were among the models left behind by iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, for instance – and both the iPhone X and iPhone 8 are now five years old, which is usually grounds for the chopping block. One MacRumors source “with a proven track record,” had stated (ahead of WWDC) that iOS 17 would drop support for the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, and the sad fact is that cut-off appears to have held firm, now that the release is official. As far as the music industry is concerned, I don’t think CD sales are increasing.Initial concerns appear to have been realised, as the likes of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X (above) don't make the cut for iOS 17 support (Image credit: Future)Īpple announced the iOS 17 release after the Apple September event, placing it at Monday, September 18. Not much more to say here except that the trend continues and music downloads continue to slow.Īs far as Apple is concerned, the slowdown in iTMS is more than offset by the increase in iTAS. I’ve written about it before and pointed out that the point of inflection in the download rate coincided with the increase in price for songs from $0.99 to $1.29. The other line in the graph is the iTunes music download rate. Twice what Jobs was predicting for “some point in time”. With the rate of downloads increasing as steeply as it is, $2 billion in sales is not unlikely in the third year of the store. If the current download rate is maintained (17 million apps/day) and if the pricing of $0.29/app is preserved, then $1.8 billion will have been spent on iOS apps this year. To see how modest we have the following data: “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” Jobs said adding that it may be a “$1 billion marketplace at some point in time.” Thirty days after the launch of the iTunes App Store, Apple announced that 60 million apps were downloaded in the first month of operations generating sales of $30 million.
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