iOS 6 adoption hits 61 percent

Advertising and analytics company Chitika said today that 61 percent of iOS devices are now running iOS 6, which was released for download in mid-September. This number comes from what Chitika said is "a sample of hundreds of millions of mobile ad impressions" from its advertising network over the last month.The rate of upgrades has pretty much leveled off, but Chitika expects it to pick back up after Apple's special event tomorrow, when the company is expected to unveil the iPad Mini, an updated 9.7-inch Retina iPad, and other products.
"We expect small gains for the OS in the coming weeks, with the possibility of iOS 6 usage touching 70 percent once adoption peaks," Chitika wrote in a blog post today. "The upcoming release of the iPad mini will likely accelerate this process."