iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days • Hacker News Board

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by daigoba66 » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:17 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #9

ayrx wrote: post #3

Whatever your personal thoughts are on iOS and Apple, you can't deny that it's amazing how fast Apple can push through new updates which is a good thing for both developers who can rely on a larger userbase for new APIs and security.

Even more amazing to me is the high rate of adoption given how massive the download (~4GB) was. I had to clean up apps from my 64GB ipad to make room (though with 64GB, I tend to carelessly collect apps, and Amazon Instant video will just download tens of GB if I'm not careful). Anecdotally, I can think of a couple friends this past month in which, on a normal day, had to stop taking pictures/selfies because their ph…

I installed iTunes over the weekend (I don't own a Mac) just to perform the update. It was fairly quick and painless, and saved me from needing to delete a ton of stuff from my 16GB iPhone, which I foolishly did for the iOS 7 update. I uninstalled iTunes as soon as it was complete.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by nnnnni » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:17 PM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #5

idreams wrote: post #2

i feel the ios 8 is still a bit buggy!!

Maybe, but the Apple Wave feature alone is worth upgrading! http://i.imgur.com/TX9dbK6.jpg

Just in case someone doesn't realize it, "Wave" is a joke/troll...

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by nnnnni » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:20 PM UTC

I suspect that there are quite a few people like myself who are waiting for a jailbreak to be released before upgrading.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by cmelbye » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:20 PM UTC

idreams wrote: post #2

i feel the ios 8 is still a bit buggy!!

It's very buggy. I installed the GM and fully expected a second GM because of all the bugs I saw. But nope, they shipped it.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by rsynnott » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

GilbertErik wrote: post #4

Maybe it's just me, but 'adoption' sounds like a purely voluntary action. Don't mean to sound negative, but is there a word with less negative connotation than 'infection'?

At this point, I don't think it has even started prompting; these will be people who either knew iOS8 was available, or saw the little '1' on the settings app. Apple doesn't do mandatory updates.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by nnnnni » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

mhurron wrote: post #6

GilbertErik wrote: post #4

Maybe it's just me, but 'adoption' sounds like a purely voluntary action. Don't mean to sound negative, but is there a word with less negative connotation than 'infection'?

Why do you believe ios8 is being forced on people?

In the interest of accuracy, iOS 8 is being forced on people through programs that require iOS 8. However, the historical trend has been to support up to two versions behind unless the program relies on something that is not available in the older versions.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by ecesena » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

I'm really surprised, it seems pretty much on track with iOS7, that was 58% after 7 days [1].

I thought that the space requirement would slow down adoption (I still have to change because of that).

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/26/ios-7-adoption-rate-much-highe...

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by rsynnott » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:23 PM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #7

I sold an iPhone not long ago, one that still had iOS 6. Seems that it sold at a bit of a premium, and that was the likely reason.

Funnily enough, one market for those is people who want them for testing; iOS6 in particular is a problem, because the only device that got left on it was the 3GS.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by melling » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:27 PM UTC

nnnnni wrote: post #13

I suspect that there are quite a few people like myself who are waiting for a jailbreak to be released before upgrading.

I thought that you couldn't use the App Store if you jail broke your phone? That's how Apple gets it statistics.

Re: iOS 8 Adoption at 46% After Five Days

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Post by shaggyfrog » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 3:29 PM UTC

rsynnott wrote: post #18

bdcravens wrote: post #7

I sold an iPhone not long ago, one that still had iOS 6. Seems that it sold at a bit of a premium, and that was the likely reason.

Funnily enough, one market for those is people who want them for testing; iOS6 in particular is a problem, because the only device that got left on it was the 3GS.

iPod Touch 4th gen also tops out at iOS 6.