Apple Excites App Makers—and Nobody Else—at Developers Conference - Businessweek

In related news, Windows 7 just reached ~50% of the Windows installed base...

"This is an event at which Apple tries to entice developers to make new apps—hence the cheers for Swift. It was the time to take a few swipes at other companies that want to win the attentions of developers.

Apple’s normally staid chief executive, Tim Cook, repeatedly poked at shortcomings of Android and Windows. Half of all Macs are running the latest version of OS X, he claimed, while only 14 percent of Windows machines are running Windows 8. The numbers on mobile are even more striking: Cook says that 89 percent of Apple’s mobile devices are running the latest version of iOS compared with only 9 percent of Android machines. “That means that these customers are not getting great new features, they’re not able to use your great new apps, and they’re not getting the security updates they need to stay safe,” he said."

Apple Excites App Makers—and Nobody Else—at Developers Conference - Businessweek