IOS 4.3 Released Ahead of Schedule

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Post by sev » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 7:42 PM UTC

IOS 4.3 Released Ahead of Schedule
arstechnica.com

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Post by raganwald » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:20 PM UTC

The update appears to be available to Canadian customers as well. I'm looking forward to trying the personal WiFi zone.

Update: Nay-nay! The update is available for my iPad but not for my iPhone 3G. Bah.

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Post by whalesalad » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

  An Apple representative told us after the iPad 2
  announcement that iOS 4.3 won't be coming to the Verizon
  iPhone anytime soon because it had just launched, but that
  the OS versions will likely converge sometime in the future.

=(

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Post by yarian » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #3

An Apple representative told us after the iPad 2 announcement that iOS 4.3 won't be coming to the Verizon iPhone anytime soon because it had just launched, but that the OS versions will likely converge sometime in the future. =(

I was wondering about this; why does it matter that it just launched...

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Post by ugh » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:43 PM UTC

Home Sharing is great. Apple just lost 200€ because of it. (I wanted to buy a 64GB iPad for my whole music collection but now the smallest model will be good enough for me.)

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Post by puls » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

yarian wrote: post #4

whalesalad wrote: post #3

An Apple representative told us after the iPad 2 announcement that iOS 4.3 won't be coming to the Verizon iPhone anytime soon because it had just launched, but that the OS versions will likely converge sometime in the future. =(

I was wondering about this; why does it matter that it just launched...

Usually, Apple forks off the software that ships on new hardware releases in the name of secrecy.

The functionality gets merged, as they mentioned, in the next release that starts after the people working on it know about the new hardware. 4.3 was almost certainly in the pipeline already when the CDMA phone came out.

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Post by trotsky » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 10:06 PM UTC

Is the iOS 4.3 upgrade not going to come out for the iPod Touch 3rd gen? Isn't this the same hardware generation as the iPhone 3GS that is supported by 4.3? Does anyone know?

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Post by frankus » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 10:21 PM UTC

My iPhone 4 is updated (via iTunes), but so far there's nothing newer than 4.2 available for my iPad (according to iTunes).

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Post by rob08 » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 10:27 PM UTC

Personal hotspot works perfectly. Actually, even better than perfectly since it's activated on my iphone without me paying anything extra for it. Very nice.

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Post by Macha » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 10:33 PM UTC

trotsky wrote: post #7

Is the iOS 4.3 upgrade not going to come out for the iPod Touch 3rd gen? Isn't this the same hardware generation as the iPhone 3GS that is supported by 4.3? Does anyone know?

I don't know, but I can't see even Apple killing off two hardware generations in one go. This is the official end of the 2nd gen just now. (Although the iOS 4.0 update made that obvious) .

Iirc, the betas supported the third gen so the only reason to kill it off is to avoid the complications of the lower specced 8gb third gen.