As a part of its announcement of the 9 million iPhone 5s/5c sales throughout the gap weekend, Apple conjointly mentioned this morning that two hundred million customers have upgraded to iOS seven since its unleash last weekday. In fact, the mobile software has tough such a fast adoption that it's going to are accountable for a spike of up to 112 % in last Wednesday’s net traffic.
Among traffic hotspots were the USA and United Kingdom, that have the very best rate of iPhone usage. simply what proportion traffic area unit we tend to talking about? Some a pair of.2 terabytes of information per second cover vi.3 million downloads per hour, in line with one estimate…
According to Akamai’s own time period monitor of the web (via international Nerdy), net traffic was 112 % higher than traditional at simply when 4pm last weekday. That’s simply 3 hours when Apple unleashed the iOS seven upgrade for geographical region iDevice house owners.
Just sixteen hours when the 1pm weekday unleash, iOS seven was adopted by nearly a 3rd of iDevice users.
Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook has aforementioned the 700 millionth iOS device can rattle down the mechanical system next month. If regarding 1/2 iOS devices purchased area unit still getting used, “it puts the amount of initial iOS seven downloads at roughly one hundred million, or 6.3 million per hour,” writes Fortune’s Prince Philip Elmer-DeWitt.
The speed at that iDevice house owners area unit upgrading is probably going a record and one that ought to heat the center of each app developers and Apple.
While the launch of the iPhone 5s associated iPhone 5c happened inside an setting of doubt over the 5c’s sales and also the provide of the 5s, the iOS seven launch has gone off while not a hitch and overall positive media attention.
“This is our greatest iPhone launch yet―more than 9 million new iPhones sold―a new record for initial weekend sales,” chief operating officer Tim Cook was quoted in today’s announcement. Apple conjointly aforementioned that over eleven million distinctive listeners have tuned in to iTunes Radio since its arrival as a part of last Wednesday’s iOS seven launch.
We can’t tell however this compares to mythical being because the common net radio service doesn’t break down its active listeners by variety.
Also, iTunes Radio is presently U.S.-only.
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