雙語：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(fā)布的最新移動軟件系統(tǒng)iOS 8出現(xiàn)了各種重大漏洞，而蘋果用戶似乎對此相當(dāng)在意。與該公司過去發(fā)布新系統(tǒng)時相比，用戶現(xiàn)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(wǎng)站上表示，該公司在大約兩周半之前發(fā)布了iOS 8系統(tǒng)，截至周日，47%的蘋果移動設(shè)備運行了該系統(tǒng)。據(jù)Mixpanel估計，新系統(tǒng)的采用率遠低于之前的iOS 7，在發(fā)布大約兩周半后，iOS 7的采用率約為70%。博客網(wǎng)站MacRumors早些時候公布了這一數(shù)據(jù)。

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.

至于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(dǎo)致一些用戶的手機暫時停止運轉(zhuǎn)。另一個原因是，通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)無線安裝升級軟件要求設(shè)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.

為什么大家會關(guān)心這個問題呢？對于蘋果來說，如果大量用戶采用新版iOS系統(tǒng)，這將是一個有利因素，新系統(tǒng)為新版iPhone量身制定，在新手機上使用效果最佳，這會促使使用舊設(shè)備的用戶最終購買新設(shè)備。對于通過蘋果App Store出售應(yīng)用程序的第三方軟件開發(fā)商而言，集中力量為使用同一軟件系統(tǒng)的單一用戶群開發(fā)應(yīng)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(shù)分析師簡·道森(Jan Dawson)表示，“如果你是開發(fā)商，你會希望盡可能多的設(shè)備能夠使用你的應(yīng)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(fā)布下一個更新軟件iOS 8.1，該軟件可能會比當(dāng)前的版本穩(wěn)定，或許能吸引更多人進行升級。

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