Kirk McElhearn on Twitter: "@DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing Yes, my iPad mini says that the 8.0 .2 update is 944 MB, and that I needed least 4.9 GB of storage."

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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 …

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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?
Dan Frakes ‏@DanFrakes 8 Oct 2014

@mcelhearn @gruber @ShawnKing It’s 2GB bigger; people have had a year longer to fill up space, apps are bigger, newer phones=larger photos…
Kirk McElhearn ‏@mcelhearn 8 Oct 2014

@DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing But I think the real problem is that Apple didn't tell people they could update using iTunes.
Dan Frakes ‏@DanFrakes 8 Oct 2014

@mcelhearn @gruber @ShawnKing Definitely—the error message should point out the workaround. But that would be bad PR in its own way.
Kirk McElhearn ‏@mcelhearn 8 Oct 2014

@DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing Why bad PR? It would help solve a problem very quickly.do you mean because it admits that there is a problem?
Dan Frakes ‏@DanFrakes 8 Oct 2014

@mcelhearn @gruber @ShawnKing Exactly. Apple pushes the idea that you don’t need a computer. Sometimes you do.

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@DanFrakes @gruber @ShawnKing Yes, my iPad mini says that the 8.0 .2 update is 944 MB, and that I needed least 4.9 GB of storage.

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