Orbit has been available a full week now, and has performed phenomenally in the market. It's about to cross the 50,000 users mark, and I thought it would be a good idea to share some statistics of the Cydia Store market.
Here's the device breakdown (of 45,254 devices):
It's interesting to note that the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS are almost identical in market share so far (in fact, for most of this week the 3GS was ahead by about 4%, but the 3G pulled ahead at the last minute). Remember, the 3GS is only a couple months old.
So, with that in mind, what OS is everyone running?
As you can see, the majority are on the latest version of iPhone OS, although there is a significant number remaining on 3.0.
Orbit has been received positively in the media, too, although the highlight of my week was getting the great Stephen Fry to use Orbit. From his e-mail to me, he said…
"Smooth and stable and genuinely useful. It’s there on my dock, the first app ever to deserve a place there…"
I can't wait to wrap up v1.1 and push it out to all of you - and if you like Orbit, please tell your friends! It's only $1.99 on the Cydia Store, and you get free updates.
Wow, iPod Touch 1g is only like, 3%? Damn. That's what I use, and I figured there were a lot more than that many people using the same device!
ReplyDelete@condawgng indeed, yes. It would be the first platform I'd drop support for if I was so inclined, but as long as the 3G is around I'll keep it up. Once everyone finally moves to the faster devices (3GS, iPT3G) then I can actually do some really cool features that would be too slow on the previous gen.
ReplyDeleteDoes the update includes v2 as well eventually? Or will v2 be another standalone?
ReplyDeleteSteven why don't you do two separate versions? Or a unique version with some locked features if you are on 3G, iT2g, etc..
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ReplyDeleteWow, I'm one of only about 400 users with an iPT3. As for features that require a faster device, couldn't they just be disabled for users that don't? (By "disabled", I mean not loaded into the RAM).
ReplyDeleteAlso, what's the rate of piracy on jailbroken devices? Seems like a large percentage of users who are only jail-breaking to illicitly download cracked apps. (from personal experience - I'm 15 and in high school, and have had to jailbreak and swap out hosts files to prevent people from :)
Question: for some reason, even though I have a WinterBoard theme applied, Orbit shows some of the icons on some of the pages as default icons (App Store, iTunes for example) but other icons are shown as icons from my theme. Is there a reason for this? The icons show up as all themed on my SpringBoard.
ReplyDelete@Max the reason is because your theme hasn't actually themed the small versions of the icons (which Orbit uses). Let themers know they need to think about the small versions too, and then you'll start to see them work properly in Orbit (and Spotlight, and anything else that uses the small version).
ReplyDeleteThere is no way for me to use the large version of the icons without killing performance and RAM unfortunately.
A fantastic app, but sometimes the pages are duplicated. Closing and reopening sorts it but it makes it kind of hard to pick the right page.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to 1.1 promised for this past weekend?
ReplyDeleteThe more I use it the more I see the incorrect page images appearing or page images duplicated. Having said that, I'm sure it will be sorted with 1.1. I can't remember the last time I flicked through half a dozen pages to find the one I want. I'm sure Apple will pinch this and implement it in the future. Really looking forward to home button function. Great work.
ReplyDeleteI really like the application. Its really better than its previous one. It would be much better than the others of its range.
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same question as @falvesjr. what happened to 1.1 promised for this past weekend
ReplyDeletesane question as @Dante and @falvesjr.. I bought this app when I read home button support was coming and am holding my breath in anticipation for the release..
ReplyDeleteWaiting on 1.1 also, i will use it a lot more when 1.1 is released? any news when?
ReplyDeleteWhere the hell is v1.1 dont tell a release date if you're not going to meet it
ReplyDeleteis orbit compatible with stack? it doesn't work when the app icon is placed in the stack pile...
ReplyDeleteIf you wont release Home Button support can you at least give us an indication of how to use Custom HomeButton to have this open with double tap?
ReplyDeleteYea wheres 1.1 we neef home button support NOW
ReplyDeleteNice graph statistics.
ReplyDeleteiPhone 3GS potions will grow-up, even more if the $99 3GS has launched at Christmas.
Regards,
iPhone Users
Still no news on home button support... *sigh* last time I buy anything from a developer who promises a feature but never follows through with it...
ReplyDeleteYes, it's frustrating waiting for the upgrade, but I would rather it was 'right' than rushed out.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, Steven, could you at least let us know that you are still out there and working on it?
Thanks.
@Rob a lot more has gone into v1.1 since home button support was planned; I'm waiting on artwork to come for these new features before I can release (as you'd expect). Sorry you have to wait, but c'mon, it's a $2 app that works great already.
ReplyDeleteI just downloaded Overboard from Cydia. It seems to do all that Orbit intended an does it well.
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