[jira] [Commented] (DMAP-150) iPhone operating system version is always reported at "1.0"

["Reza Naghibi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DMAP-150?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14370260#comment-14370260 ] 

Reza Naghibi commented on DMAP-150:
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Hey Angel, this is the proper place to address this.

So there are 2 issues at play here:

First, our device data only tells us how to identify devices. Until recently this was good enough since knowing the device usually meant we have a pretty good idea what the operating system is. This is because devices didnt really change operating systems much. Recently, this has been changing. To address this shortcoming, we are creating a new operating system pattern index which we will introduce in 2.0.

Second, one of the biggest exceptions to this rule is iOS. We have very little device information, so it makes it harder to say something specific about the operating system since the device drives the identification. Once we get our OS pattern index in place, this issue goes away competely!

So the best thing to do is to ignore the operating system version until we have our 2.0 data release because its just too inaccurate to know when to trust it and when its completely off. Its also pretty simple to parse it out yourself for now.

Thanks for trying us out!

> iPhone operating system version is always reported at "1.0"
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DMAP-150
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DMAP-150
>             Project: DeviceMap
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Angel Darquea
>            Assignee: Reza Naghibi
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Hello, 
> I'm using devicemap-data v1.0.2 and devicemap-client v1.1.0.
> For some reason, all iPhone user agents resolve operating system version to "1.0" and all iPad ones to "6.0". Please see the results here: http://pastebin.com/k7CBbNwm
> Can you advice?
> Thank you and please excuse me if this is not the proper channel to submit a question.
> Thank you.
> AD



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