Although iOS 8 got off to a slower start than iOS 7, it’s finally starting to rebound. New numbers suggest that over half of all customers have upgraded to iOS 8. But all’s not well yet. In fact, iOS 8 uptake is pretty much stagnant.
After five and a half weeks of availability, Apple’s iOS 8 operating system is now running on approximately 52 percent of all active iOS devices, at least according to Apple’s own App Store support page for developers.
That’s good to hear, since iOS 8 adoption was initially very low, a problem no doubt exacerbated by the fact that the first update, iOS 8.0.1, had a bug that rendered people’s iPhones unusable.
Even so, 52 percent of all devices running iOS 8 is a paltry figure compared to the number of people who upgraded to iOS 7 or iOS 6 after five weeks. In fact, that number has barely budged since September 23, when 46 percent of all iOS users were on iOS 8.
In other words, this number has only budged 6 percent in as many weeks. If Apple doesn’t fix this, we’re looking at an Android-like fragmentation problem coming down the pipe. That’s not good, but I have to admit, of my three iOS devices, I’ve only upgraded one to iOS 8. What about you?
Source: App Store
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
9 responses to “iOS 8 growth is basically stagnant”
“Starting to rebound” or “basically stagnant”. Which is it?
Why haven’t you upgraded?
All have been upgraded and all is well
Finally convinced my wife to upgrade last night after swearing ‘it’s safe I promise’. Wouldn’t you know it her phone entered into a blue screen boot loop… Blue screen of death on an Apple device? Yup apparently that’s a thing… A quick search on Apple support forum turns up that sure enough A LOT of people had/have the same issue… after an hour or so trying the different methods suggested in the thread I finally was able to get it out of the boot loop… So yeah people are slow on the uptake because crap like that happens; and when it does, people undoubtedly talk to their friends and other family members about it and encourage them not to upgrade to avoid headache. This is an issue of Apples own doing – QA used to be a lot better.
I haven’t upgraded all my devices yet because I prefer the older non-flat “app” version of iBooks. Under iOS 8, it is no longer an app but part of the OS.
Now that a jailbreak is released, more people will be upgrading.
iOS 8 does not RUN on all iOS devices. Shoddy journalism
The main reason why we cannot upgrade is storage space requirement.
No Support for iPhone 4!!!!!!!!!!