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Apple says iOS 8 now on 60% of iPhones and iPads

Update Dec. 9: Now at 63%

Update Dec. 24: 1% increase to 64% since two weeks ago

Apple today updated its App Store Distribution data for developers to announce that iOS 8 is now installed on 60% of devices as of earlier this week. The data is collected from App Store visits on November 24 and is up from the 55% of devices iOS 8 was on when Apple last checked in early this month.

While adoption of iOS 8 this year has lagged behind last year’s iOS 7 release, Apple made a point of noting at its event back in October that iOS adoption is still far outpacing Android. At the time, Apple noted that iOS 8 was at 48% of users compared to 54% of Android users running Android Jelly Bean first released in 2012 and only 25% running the latest Android KitKat release.

Apple reached 60% adoption for iOS 8 in just over 60 days since its release compared to 313 days it took for KitKat to reach 25% of Android users.

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Comments

  1. كورسات شبكات - 9 years ago

    thanks for posting

  2. Avenged110 - 9 years ago

    Who are we? The five percent!

  3. Ken Porter - 9 years ago

    I really wish there was a way to roll back an update, be it iOS or an app. I upgraded my iPad 2 to iOS 8 — now it’s quite sluggish & several apps crash — it’s not much fun to use right now. 😠

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      Just keep sending feedback to apple.com/Feedback. I don’t think Apple should lock anyone into an operating system they don’t like. If it was possible to roll back to iOS 7 for a couple of weeks they should’ve it just left that open ended. Just make it a point to keep bothering them on the feedback site.

      It also couldn’t hurt to do a complete restore on the iPad, just in case.

  4. kjl3000 - 9 years ago

    Those numbers would look quite different if Apple didn’t stop signing iOS 7 immediately after releasing iOS 8. (I’m so happy I’ve saved the 7.1.2 certs for my iPad 3 : )

  5. Sahiwala Software - 9 years ago

    who takes pain to upgrade and transfer of data from one to another systems, be stick to the old one.

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      What pain? What data transfer? On an older device you simply download the software and go. On a new device you restore from a backup (inevitable) and your done. That it unless you want to do everything OTA, then you’ve got a hobby on your hands.

      My 5s was updated in about 20 minutes and iOS 8 is as stable as iOS 7 ever was. OTOH I hear a lot of iPhone 6 users are having problems with iOS 8. That’s what happens when the OS is developed on the older hardware. iOS 7 was buggy as hell on the 5s, but that’s another story.

  6. The data is REALLY inaccurate or irrelevant. W/o the ability for me to choose which OS to install it doesn’t say ANYTHING whatsoever about the adoption or likeness of a software. They should sign the last version of each major OS version for that particular device. I wish i could go back to iOS6 on my 5.

  7. herb02135go - 9 years ago

    I hope Apple is paying attention to those data and asking themselves why people are not using the latest and not so greatest.

    Anyone who updates without waiting for reviews and research is a fool and deserves their crappy experience.

    happy thanksgiving to my friends in the states!

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      “Anyone who updates without waiting for reviews and research is a fool and deserves their crappy experience.”

      Then again, early adopters had the opportunity to roll back to 7.1.2 if they didn’t like 8.

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