Apple has pushed out a minor software update to its iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch devices this afternoon. According to the update information from Apple, among 246MB worth of unnamed bug fixes and improvements, Safari's stability has been improved, and an "issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll" has been fixed.
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This is the 2nd update I've done on my iPod touch and it's crazy to download 277 MB (it wasn't 246 MB for me) each time.
The other day I downloaded Safari for Windows and it was roughly 32 MB, instead of the under-1 MB fixes that Mozilla Firefox generally requires. Since I thought that the Mac OS X updates were bad, you can imagine how thrilled I am to download 277 MB each time for the iPod touch.
If they want to keep the update image on my hard drive and send bits and pieces for it, it might be a whole lot better. I feel sorry for the people on a dialup connection.
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|People with iPhones pay thousands of dollars already for their devices (stretched out over contract.) why would they have only dial-up?
You don't have to update this every time. Just wait for an update once a year or so.
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|Its like the size of XP SP3. And people were complaining that the size of that!
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|they have rolled out over 1GB of updates now... and my phone still freezes about once a day. I can confirm "It DOESNT just work" lol
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|Whoa...
I know it's already been stated, but sheesh.. 246MB hardly seems like a "minor" update. LOL
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|246
MB?
4...
Any company rolled me a 246 mb to fix some pictures and mail and crap, and i stomp the device on the floor!!!!!!! WTFFFFFFF!!!!!
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|246MB?????
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|Alright people, apple does small updates. The file is the entire OS not just an update file. The reason they do this is because the phone is based on OS X and unfortunatly the way the updates work they have repack the entire OS for the phone.
So you get a 246MB download.
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|Please, continue your thought. You answer explains how the update is so large. It doesn't explain why. Out of the updates "released" by Apple for iPhone and iTouch. How many have been small updates and how many have been this type of a rebuild update? Sorry, the reason they do this is so one rebuilds their device all the time. It's Apples attempt at countering the mods. Making it to much of a hassle to rebuild your device after an update (cough rebuild). My laptop and desktop runs osX and don't need to be be rebuilt for these types of updates. Why doesn't the iPhone and iTouch os's act the same?
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