Not sure when it does go live today, might already be live, but my devices still showing 6.x as the latest.

A few people here have been running the betas and GM on their main devices and seem very happy with it. That isn't to say there are not and will not be issues, no software release is perfect.

Alas my 3GS cannot run 7, so I cannot upgrade to it.

I am very curious to see the uptake for 7 though. 5 to 6 saw a lot of people upgrade in the early stages and I'm hoping to see the same for 7, which helps when you want to make an iOS 7 only app. Combine Apple (finally) adding support to download an older version of a app if the current one does not support your OS - Say you are on iOS 6 and app is now iOS 7 only, you will be able to download the last version of the app that supported iOS 6 - and you could see far more apps being iOS 7 only.

I'm predicting 7.0.1 around 20th October, and 7.1 in early december.

 

Hullomail released an update to their App, and it now bombs out for me still running 5.0.1, so the ability to revert to the older app would be a welcome move. I want to install iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 pronto but feel the need to hang back a day or three.

 

The ability to revert to an older app only - currently - applies, if you are trying to download an app that requires a newer version of iOS which you are not running.

example;
AppX v10 now requires iOS 7 or later. AppX v9 required iOS 6 or later. AppX v8 required iOS 5 or later.

You are running iOS 5 on your device and you search for AppX.
You will see v10, as the App Store only shows the latest version of an app. When you attempt to download v10, you will see a dialog that states the app requires iOS 7 and asks if you wish to download a previous version. If you click download then it will install a previous version. In the example above, you would get v8 of AppX.
If you were running iOS 6 you would get v9.

You cannot select which version you get, the app store decides for you. As yet, there seems to be no information on wether developers can see / select which versions a user gets. It seems it's probably based on giving you the latest version that supports the iOS version you are running.

I ran iOS 4.2 on a device and tried to grab an app that I knew only supported iOS 5 and later and it gave me the last version of the app that did not require iOS 5.

 

Apparently it goes live in the UK at 6PM...

 

That would make some sense, 6PM GMT = 10AM PDT. Does seem to be live on my iPad 3 running 5.1.1 via the OTA software update.

 

Beta has been pretty stable for me the last month or so. Had no crashes on the GM version either.

 

Can get the .ipsw from here. http://www.redmondpie.com/download-i...-direct-links/

 

Seems the cell data download limit has increased from 50MB to 100MB, which is nice.

Also seems there is a 7.0.1 for 5S and 5C devices.

App Store is VERY slow at present, no idea why

 

It's showing as available for download on my ipad2.

 

It hasn't on the GM

 

As suggested it's now up..... just updating iTunes and then I'm on to iOS 7.

 

Well if its out now I think I will update my devices tonight

 

Started downloading now for my 5

 

Be in for the long haul...... mine has crapped out at least 8 times so far.

 

Nothing happening for me. It's showing an image of io7 and that's it

 

Same. It's not downloading.... Just stuck on 'estimating time remaining' and then fails. broken before its even installed.

 

I appear to be getting more success downloading the IPSW files using a download manager, direct from Apple servers.

Although still slow it is quicker than using iTunes or device - 24% downloaded in 14mins. iTunes and my device were reporting 18hrs - and it was still crapping out.

 

Down loaded it and had a quick scoot round.
I like some of the features. However I had that it looks like parade from Brighton sea front.
It needs toning down a bit.
It's lost that professional feel to it.

Seems to have been cheapened in some way.

 

Crashed
Start again

 

downloading 87 mins remaining.

First attempt as it took me an hour to get Itunes to update

 

Given up, network connection keeps timing out so I'll leave it until the weekend!

 

**** it

spoke too soon just crashed

 

lol

Got to 99% and it crapped out.... getting closer. Why on earth they don't beef up there infrastructure for updates like this I'll never know.

 

Download was ok but verification took 6-7 attempts. Done now. Keyboard and mail looks sharp. Not sure about the app Icons though - looks very cartoony.

 

been trying all night, gonna give up

 

I cannot access the activation server or the iTunes store so I'm just guessing the system is being overwhelmed - wouldn't want to be working in an apple store tomorrow

 

Seems ok now

 

Just done it, restoring the apps and so on - abut 2-minutes to go

 

I like the little echo from the lock sound

 

It's pretty difficult to do that, especially at this kind of scale. If it was easy, there wouldn't be a problem, as you can get apple don't want people having difficulty!

It's 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'. Google release the updates over a period of weeks, and people complain they haven't get theirs straight away. Apple release to everyone at once and people complain the service is overwhelmed. Can't win.