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Ollifi

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So the iOS 8 will be released for public tomorrow, 17th Sept. ,anyone have expections of the actual time? Last year it was released at 10 a.m. PDT.

Expected iOS 8 release time:

12 hour time,
17.th Sept. at 10.00 am PDT
17.th Sept. at 5.00 pm GMT

24 hour time,
17.th Sept. at 10 o'clock PDT
17.th Sept. at 17 o'clock GMT
 
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What if you're 15 hours ahead of Apple time? Will it be released the next day? 🙁

I imagine it would release like most of their releases, at the same time worldwide, so yes, you would receive yours 15 hours later than the US PDT release time.
 
I'll be doing it at night due to work, my son's football game, and you heathens hammering the servers.
 
After the absolute cluster**** that was the iOS7 release I will most likely wait until Thursday before I update. I still remember trying to update last time.... Took me hours....
 
I'll be doing it at night due to work, my son's football game, and you heathens hammering the servers.

I remember last year, the minute IOS 7 came out, I had to wait until the next day to update my iPhone due to server overload.
 
What if you're 15 hours ahead of Apple time? Will it be released the next day? 🙁

Of course. Apple won't release it early for those that far ahead of their time zone. It's not like you are actually waiting 15 hours longer than the rest of us.
 
I remember last year, the minute IOS 7 came out, I had to wait until the next day to update my iPhone due to server overload.

Yeah this happened with me - I just downloaded the .ipsw online and did a "check for update" in itunes and worked instantly, so much quicker than OTA imo.
 
Of course. Apple won't release it early for those that far ahead of their time zone. It's not like you are actually waiting 15 hours longer than the rest of us.

But that's what it feels like when the whole internet says September 17, and that date is almost over! 😛😛😛
 
Yeah, last year was insane. Why don't they stagger the release between time zones?

People pull their software from different datacenters. Here in Europe Apple make use of many third party datacenters specifically for software/App Store downloads.
 
I'm looking forward to iOS 8 shipping on my iPhone 6 and might have to update my iPad today to hold me over.
 
But that's what it feels like when the whole internet says September 17, and that date is almost over! 😛😛😛

Well I guess there has to be somewhere in the world where the update goes live at the end of the day (their time).

Apple is based in the PDT time zone and the 10:00AM launch there is probably because they will have Apple staff and engineers on hand and ready for when the floodgates open to deal with whatever problems come up during the day. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple already has an army of employees up in the wee hours of the morning getting ready for this launch.
 
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