iOS 26’s failure shows what happens when you take customers for granted

Macworld
I had a good time last week digging through OS adoption data and recreating my glory days as a high-school mathematician. But the numbers are decidedly less fun for Tim Cook. According to research by StatCounter, iOS 26’s adoption rate is less than a quarter of iOS 18’s at the same time in its release cycle, and that’s bad news for the iPhone.Why aren’t people installing iOS 26? The short answer is “Liquid Glass,” since the new design language has bee