One of the large ISPs in the UK Plusnet had a major outage last night that lasted a few hours - started about 1720 UTC... that would have stopped quite a few downloads!
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iOS 8 Downloads Cause Spike in Web Traffic as Adoption Rate Climbs Slowly
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Not exactly. Most people don't have iPhones older than the 4S and many people (myself included) with the 4S are not upgrading to iOS8 because iOS7 ran just decent enough on the 4S, plus many of us with 4S's are upgrading to the iPhone 6. iOS8 brings the 4S to a crawl according to reviewers on the internet.
That basically leaves iPhone 5/5S users upgrading to iOS8 which is a smaller amount of customers.
You and MacRumors both. I think of you the same way I think of parents that teach their children to hate, using your position of influence for evil.
iOS 8 is a great update with small improvements in the UX which work well on the 4S, and even better on an even larger screen.
I think 8 has a low adoption rate because it is taking 3 days just to download it! My rMini has been downloading for 13 hours so far and it still says "17 hours remaining" and I have a 75/75 Fios connection. 
It's beyond "dumb". I have a 16GB 5S with 3GB's free, yet I had to spend over an hour deleting Apps and photo's, lots of people aren't going to do that. Yes, after the upgrade was complete I got most of the space I had freed up back. Then I had the joy of reinstalling the Apps I had deleted.
If you try to upgrade while connected to iTunes on a Mac the installer should be smart enough to use your Mac for the extra storage space needed. The way Apple handled this is anything but user-friendly. It's about as dumb as the U2 download.
There are nearly 1 billion iOS devices out there in the wild....granted there are a large number of devices not supported for iOS 8....but 14% (or even 2%) of the upgradeable iOS population is a rather large number....
Certainly bigger than 4. I too updated 4 devices yesterday.
I am surprised by this, because you are correct via iTunes it is suppose to download to the Mac/PC storage
I thought this was the work around.....read an article that suggested people do this as it doesn't require additional space on the device.
Agreed. Looks like all those 5's are just going to replaced so I can see most people not bothering to move to iOS 8
Or, no one wants to upgrade to iOS 8 and find that iCloud is broken until Yosemite is released. Or, as in my case, don't see the point due to the lack of SMS relay (was really looking forward to that one).
Or you know, they could plug into a Mac or PC let it download it on that comparatively enormous hard drive, thus solving this non problem.
Are PCs really extinct already??
Edit: lol, looks like a few others beat me to this suggestion.
Impossible to download!
There would be a lot more devices running iOS 8 if you were actually able to download it! I tried last night, but it stopped downloading after several unproductive hours. At one point, it said 18 hours remaining, but then a few minutes later it went back to 24 hours remaining. I tried again this morning and it still said 24 hours. I wasn't going to leave my phone home today just to find out it didn't work again. I'll just wait until tomorrow to get my iPhone 6.
There would be a lot more devices running iOS 8 if you were actually able to download it! I tried last night, but it stopped downloading after several unproductive hours. At one point, it said 18 hours remaining, but then a few minutes later it went back to 24 hours remaining. I tried again this morning and it still said 24 hours. I wasn't going to leave my phone home today just to find out it didn't work again. I'll just wait until tomorrow to get my iPhone 6.
I'm not updating until Yosemite comes out - simple as that.
It really is only a half update if you can't use SMS relay, Health Kit, or iCloud Drive (if you don't want to lose the ability to sync with Mavericks)... probably besides other features. This is one of the worse iOS releases ever, and the adoption rates will reflect that.
For all the boasting Apple has done this year about the "greatest product lineup ever", Tim seems to have delivered a spectacular fail. I mean, he fired Scott Forstall for screwing up a single app, let alone the entire operating system...
It really is only a half update if you can't use SMS relay, Health Kit, or iCloud Drive (if you don't want to lose the ability to sync with Mavericks)... probably besides other features. This is one of the worse iOS releases ever, and the adoption rates will reflect that.
For all the boasting Apple has done this year about the "greatest product lineup ever", Tim seems to have delivered a spectacular fail. I mean, he fired Scott Forstall for screwing up a single app, let alone the entire operating system...
You are aware that there are compression and simultaneous erasing algorithms that bypass this limitation?
I think some of the slower adoption was the size of the downloads and the speed of the servers. It took me ~4 hours to download the iOS 8 upgrade for my iPhone 5S on my MacBook Air. The bottleneck wasn't my Internet connection, it was Apple's servers.
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Apple didn't use this for its iOS update.
Um hello dude. Install it from your computer. It installed on my wife's phone with only 800 free MB.
INSTALL IT FROM YOUR COMPUTER!
I can confirm that this is exactly what happens. My sons 16GB 5 had around 2.5GB free when I updated his phone for him last night. No deleting needed...
Appreciate this advice. I've a 16GB 4S and have been skeptical about installing iOS8.
Planning to get new iPhone within the next 12-14 months. It'll be of the Plus variety. Will there be a version newer than the 6+ in Fall/Winter 2015, I wonder?
It's not new that:
* the oldest supported iOS device has poor performance in a new iOS release
* the Apple servers are hard to access soon after launch
I think it's something else than these two at least. I think the space requirements for an OTA upgrade makes sense as a factor. Many people aren't aware of the iTunes alternative since they've been taught that OTA is "the most convenient way".
* the oldest supported iOS device has poor performance in a new iOS release
* the Apple servers are hard to access soon after launch
I think it's something else than these two at least. I think the space requirements for an OTA upgrade makes sense as a factor. Many people aren't aware of the iTunes alternative since they've been taught that OTA is "the most convenient way".
On the contrary Schranke, now is the best time to do it. Apple will be signing both iOS7 and iOS8 for a limited period and this gives those teh option to downgrade if its not suitable for them.
Be sure to download iOS7 files first!!
The 7.0.1 files are here but you should be able to get hold of the later ones too from somewhere.
I dont get all these people who say dont update your 4S!!!!!!
I have an 4S and even if it was the longest update I have ever done (4 hours - not to just download the software just to see the bar rise after downloading.. preparing to update) the 4S is as fast as before and sometimes even faster because the animations are faster. I installed swiftkey but thats not really a good thing because the keyboard needs a moment to load on the 4S if you need a keyboard.
I have an 4S and even if it was the longest update I have ever done (4 hours - not to just download the software just to see the bar rise after downloading.. preparing to update) the 4S is as fast as before and sometimes even faster because the animations are faster. I installed swiftkey but thats not really a good thing because the keyboard needs a moment to load on the 4S if you need a keyboard.