iOS 8 Adoption Continues To Grow, Hits 75%

Apple this week updated its App Store Distribution report, revealing that iOS 8 adoption among current Apple devices has continued to grow, reaching  75 percent as of March 2. That’s a 3 percentage point increase over this time last month when adoption sat at around 72%.

The figure, represents a 7 percent increase from 68 percent in January. This still well behind the pace set by iOS 7 during its first three months in 2013.

Source: Apple

Following its release on September 17, 2014, iOS 8 quickly jumped to just under 50 percent adoption, but uptake of the free iOS upgrade slowed significantly in the weeks following, settling in the mid-to-low 50 percent range. iOS 8 adoption has started to grow again in the past two months, but not as fast as iOS 7 did during its first quarter on the market in 2013.

By comparison, iOS 7 reached nearly 80 percent adoption a month after release, peaking at 95 percent the week before the release of iOS 8.