One estimate shows that the increase in traffic may be coming at a rate of 2.2 terabyte data per second, in form of 6.3 million downloads in an hour. Akami’s real time monitor shows that internet traffic was 112% above the normal traffic last Wednesday at 4 pm. (3 hours after the roll out of iOS 7 at East Coast).
Moreover, 16 hours later after the release at 1 pm on Wednesday, 1/3 device owners had the upgrade installed.
CEO Tim Cook said that next month, the 700 millionth iDevice will be coming out of assembly line. Phillip Elmer-DeWitt from Fortune says:
If 50% of the iDevices are still under use, “it puts the number of initial iOS 7 downloads at roughly 100 million, or 6.3 million per hour,â€
The speed of adoption is somewhat a record set. The launch of iOS 7 has gone without any disturbances and received positive reviews all around.
The latest Press Release from Tim Cook revealed:
“This is our best iPhone launch yet―more than nine million new iPhones sold―a new record for first weekend salesâ€.
Apple has also stated that above 11 million users have tuned into iTunes Radio (and its currently available for U.S. only, imagine that).
