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iOS 8 Release: iPhone And iPad Owners Slower To Install Apple's Newest Mobile Operating System Than They Were With iOS 7

People Downloaded iOS 7 Much More Quickly Than They're Downloading iOS 8

We've now entered the third day of iOS 8's release, but Apple users aren't as quick to download it as they were back when iOS 7 came out, a report by 9to5Mac shows.

iOS 8 Launch: Hands-On With The New Operating System [SCREENS]

According to the report, published yesterday, the adoption rate for iOS 8 was just around 8 percent of devices within the first day of its release. By comparison, iOS 7 had already reached around 17 percent of iOS devices at the same point in its release cycle.

The folks over at Mixpanel have been keeping a live update of which version of iOS Apple users are running. At this point, iOS 8 has reached around one in five iOS devices. iOS 7, however, had reach nearly twice that amount 48 hours after its launch. Even now, a solid three out of every four iOS devices still runs iOS 7, according to the Mixpanel graph.

What We Knew Going Into The iOS 8 Launch

The difference in adoption rate between the two iOS version likely has little to do with the ability of people's devices to run iOS 8. Every device that could run iOS 7, with the exception of the iPhone 4, is able to update to iOS 8, and the update is absolutely free to install. The new update's substantial file size, however, could be a major reason why so many people have yet to upgrade. With users reporting needing several gigs of storage available to download the update, iPhone users with a lot of data clogging up their hard drive could need to wait a bit before they have the time to sit down and make some space.

Now that the iPhone 6 is out, however, iOS 8 may start to become more popular, as each new phone comes preloaded with the operating system. Once the iPhone preorder supply problems start to die down and phones start getting in people's hands, iOS 7 might start to die out to be replaced by iOS 8.

It's been a year. It had a good run.

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