“As big as the lines outside Apple stores were for the launch of the company’s two new iPhones were last week, the virtual lines to download iOS 7 may have been even more impressive,” Chris O’Brien reports for The Los Angeles Times.
“After iOS 7 became available to download last Wednesday, Internet traffic from Apple.com tripled to more than 13% for the average customers of Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat Systems,” O’Brien reports. “The company makes hardware and software that helps companies monitor and optimize their Web traffic.”
“In offices and schools across the country, IT managers were struggling to keep their systems working as employees as attempted to download the iOS 7 to their Apple devices,” O’Brien reports. “On Monday, Apple confirmed that iOS 7 had been downloaded onto 200 million iOS devices. And other third parties reported that the adoption had pushed past 50% of all iOS devices, a far faster clip than previous updates.”
O’Brien reports, “‘There was a ridiculous amount of popularity for this update,’ Blue Coat director Jeff Brainard said in an interview. ‘I think in the case of a big file update that’s had this kind of impact, no, I have not seen this in the four years I’ve been here.'”
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