Rumors about iOS 5 as well as the iPhone 5 are coming in fast-and-furious with Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, and its particular typical keynote, set to kick off on June 6. The most recent pegs Apple to become launching “over-the-air” updates for iOS - something Google Android users have enjoyed for decades. This could get rid of the requirement for users to plug their handset to iTunes to receive an update on the iOS operating-system, but would also trigger a download that is at least 500 megabytes with the user’s network - bigger than many users’ entire month of internet data usage.
Making the move to OTA updates could be a lot more convenient in the most common of iPhone owners, but would require Apple to significantly shrink how big the iOS update package how the handset receives. Apple news website 9to5 Mac recently suggested that Apple and Verizon are actually working on offering this functionality for the past year. Apparently, Apple has developed one way for sending smaller iOS updates from the handset’s cellular data connection - avoiding iTunes entirely, and other about what the company’s AppleTV does every time a firmware upgrade can be acquired.
Apple might be set to launch OTA updates like a feature in their preview of iOS 5, which the company has announced is resulting June 6th at WWDC. Steve Jobs and co. is going to be available just to walk attendees over the new iOS features, and if OTA updates are coming, it’s likely they’ll focus on AT&T and Verizon users in the usa and roll out of there. Users would still should connect with iTunes to update their handsets to iOS 5, after which it after that on out, the updates belly in over-the-air.
While Verizon have been furiously rolling out its next-generation LTE high-speed cellular data technology across America, it’s currently believed by analysts and news outlets alike that Apple won’t include it inside the next-generation iPhone handset. This removes the chance for Apple to depend upon very high-speed data downloads to supply huge iOS updates to its users’ handsets, so the company should be very efficient in their packaging whether or not this does choose to roll out OTA updates in iOS 5. Regardless, the LTE networks for both Verizon and AT&T aren’t yet ready for prime-time, and won’t be for about another year, and this doesn’t negatively impact this plan of action that much.
Usually the one challenge identified by whoever has been speaking about this potential feature is currently iTunes performs a backup of the things about the iPhone prior to an update. This backup exists in case anything goes completely wrong with all the update process, and has proven to be imperative that you a minimum of a few users over time. And not using a connection to iTunes, no backup will likely be performed, and with OTA updates coming regularly many users will likely forego connecting their iPhone to iTunes at all. It’s unknown how Apple offers to address this at the time of yet.
One option, naturally, could be the new iCloud cloud-based platform that Apple has told you to get announcing alongside iOS 5 at WWDC. This feature would prove a tremendous boon to iPhone users that want to abandon iTunes, but the question remains… will Apple allow them to? We’ll discover on June 6th when Steve Jobs takes happens.
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