iOS 8 Still Powers Fewer Than 50 Percent of Supported iDevices A Month After Release

Statista’s Felix Richter says according to data from Mixpanel, iOS 8 uptake remains slow, particularly when compared with adoption of its predecessors. While iOS 7 powered nearly 60 percent of iPhones, iPads and iPods a mere seven days on from its release, Apple’s latest operating system ihas been stalled now at being on fewer than 50 percent of supported devices 28 days on from its release.

This Statista chart compares the adoption rates of iOS 7 and iOS 8 in the first four weeks after their respective releases.

Reports of sluggish performance on Apple A5 and A5X powered devices, which represent about half the machines still in service that are supported by iOS Apple’s making it impossible to “downgrade” to iOS 7, reported bugginess, a botched would-be bugfix update (8.0.1), all have likely cotributed to many users’ reluctance to upgrade. That has been the case with this writer’s iPad 2, which continues to work fine running iOS 7.1.2.

iPad 2’s reportedly represent 32 percent of iPads in use. Add the A5 powered original iPad mini (non-Retina) and the 3rd Generation A5X powered iPad, and you have a sizable cohort of iPad users who have reason to doubt that iOS 8 will be worth the performance compromises it imposes on those older machines.

For the full report, visit here:
http://www.statista.com/chart/2752/ios-8-adoption/

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