Kirk McElhearn on Twitter: "@MarkDMill @DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing It's actually almost exactly 1.5 times as much."

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Shawn King ‏@ShawnKing 7 Oct 2014

@Gruber “canary-in-coal-mine = casual users no longer trust Apple with iOS updates.” if that’s what’s happening. Lots of other explanations.
John Gruber ‏@gruber 7 Oct 2014

@ShawnKing Reading my replies, it seems very clear the main culprit is that people don’t have enough space for the over the air installer.
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Dan Frakes ‏@DanFrakes 8 Oct 2014

Dan Frakes Retweeted Dan Frakes

@gruber @ShawnKing That’s my theory:https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/519504889186369536 …

Dan Frakes added,

Dan Frakes @DanFrakes

I think a huge part of the (relatively) slow adoption of iOS 8 is that it requires >5GB of space for OTA update.
Kirk McElhearn ‏@mcelhearn 8 Oct 2014

@DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing iOS 7 required 3.3 GB for OTA updates. 8 does need more, but could it make that much difference?
Mark Miller ‏@MarkDMill 8 Oct 2014

@mcelhearn @DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing iOS8 needed 5GB for me. That's nearly 2x more. As % of 16GB, that's 10% more (7=20%, 8=30%)

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6:33 AM - 8 Oct 2014

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