iOS8漏洞嚴重 用戶更新步伐較慢

The release of Apple’s latest mobile software system, iOS 8, was riddled with major bugs, and Apple customers actually seem to care. They are adopting the new software update more slowly than they did past releases.

蘋果(Apple)發佈的最新移動軟件系統iOS 8出現了各種重大漏洞，而蘋果用戶似乎對此相當在意。與該公司過去發佈新系統時相比，用戶現在更新軟件的步伐要慢得多。

The company said on a webpage that as of Sunday 47 percent of Apple mobile devices are running iOS 8 after it was released about two and a half weeks ago. That is much lower adoption rate than that of the previous version, iOS 7, which was running on about 70 percent of device about two and a half weeks after its release, according to an estimate by Mixpanel. The blog MacRumors earlier spotted the statistic.

蘋果公司在網站上表示，該公司在大約兩週半之前發佈了iOS 8系統，截至週日，47%的蘋果移動設備運行了該系統。據Mixpanel估計，新系統的採用率遠低於之前的iOS 7，在發佈大約兩週半後，iOS 7的採用率約爲70%。博客網站MacRumors早些時候公佈了這一數據。

There are a couple of popular theories for why people might be picking up iOS 8 more slowly. For one, they could have heard about the serious bugs, like the one that temporarily caused some users’ phones to stop working. For another, the software update requires a significant amount of storage on the device — about five gigabytes — when it is installed wirelessly over the Internet.

至於人們更新步伐較慢的原因，有兩種比較普遍的觀點。一個原因是，他們可能對這些嚴重漏洞有所耳聞，比如有一個漏洞會導致一些用戶的手機暫時停止運轉。另一個原因是，通過網絡無線安裝升級軟件要求設備擁有大量存儲空間——大約5G。

Why should anyone care? For Apple, it is a big plus when a large amount of people grab the latest iOS: The newest system is made to work best on newer phones, and that encourages people with older devices to eventually buy new ones. As for third-party software developers selling apps through Apple’s App Store, it is more efficient to focus on building apps for a single audience running the same software system.

爲什麼大家會關心這個問題呢？對於蘋果來說，如果大量用戶採用新版iOS系統，這將是一個有利因素，新系統爲新版iPhone量身制定，在新手機上使用效果最佳，這會促使使用舊設備的用戶最終購買新設備。對於通過蘋果App Store出售應用程序的第三方軟件開發商而言，集中力量爲使用同一軟件系統的單一用戶羣開發應用會更有效率。

“If you’re a developer, you want the largest possible base of devices to be able to use your app, but if half the people with iPhones are on iOS 7 or earlier, the addressable market becomes a lot smaller,” said Jan dawson, an independent technology analyst for Jackdaw Research.

Jackdaw Research公司獨立技術分析師簡·道森(Jan Dawson)表示，“如果你是開發商，你會希望儘可能多的設備能夠使用你的應用，但如果一半的iPhone用戶使用iOS 7或更早的版本，潛在市場會變得小很多。”

Apple declined to comment. But the company is expected to release soon the next update, iOS 8.1, which will probably be more stable than the current one and could persuade more people to update.

蘋果公司拒絕置評。但該公司有望很快發佈下一個更新軟件iOS 8.1，該軟件可能會比當前的版本穩定，或許能吸引更多人進行升級。