Michal Ždanský Despite the slower adoption of the new iOS 8 operating system, its share has already risen to 60 percent. It thus improved by eight percentage points compared to the previous month, when the share of the system was at 52 percent. But these are still worse numbers compared to iOS 7, which exceeded 70% adoption at this time a year ago. Currently, the year-old system is still holding on to 35 percent, while a paltry five remain on older versions.
The slow growth of the share is due to about two fundamental factors. The first one is the space issue where the OTA update requires up to 5GB of free space on the device. Unfortunately, with 16GB basic versions of iPhones and iPads, or even 8GB versions of older models, such an amount of free space is practically unimaginable. Users are thus forced to either delete content on their devices, or update using iTunes, or a combination of both.
The second problem is the distrust of users in the new system. On the one hand, iOS 8 contained a large number of bugs when it was released, some of which were not fixed even by the update to 8.1.1, but the biggest damage was done by version 8.0.1, which practically disabled the new iPhones, which were unable to use phone functions. Despite these problems, the rate of adoption increased to roughly two percentage points per week, mainly thanks to sales of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and by Christmas, iOS 8 could already have a share of over 70 percent.
Does the statistic only include devices that support iOS 8?
Absolutely sure. Other devices would only spoil their stats.
If it were possible to downgrade to iOS 6, those numbers would definitely look different...
At the moment, I can't imagine going back to the old six...
At the moment, I would very much like to go back to the six from the seven. If only big brother would allow me.
I have an iPhone 5 and I wouldn't want to go back to iOS7 or even iOS6 for anything.
What do you like about iOS 8? I also have an iPhone 5 and I haven't upgraded from iOS 7 yet, I see obvious slowness, errors and no great new features in the videos. When there is the umpteenth update in a row, maybe - there is no reason yet. Thanks