Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

List of things Apple is releasing today (perhaps incomplete?):

  iOS 5 (iPhone, iPad)
  Mac OS X 10.7.2 (and maybe 10.6.9?)
  Apple TV 4.4 Update
  updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iOS
  iPhoto 9.2
  Aperture 3.2
  Safari 5.1.1 (Mac, Windows)
  iCloud Control Panel for Windows
  the iCloud web apps
  Cards (and associated print/delivery service)
  Lion Recovery Update
  iTunes Movie Trailers app
  Find my Friends app
  AirPort Setup utility app
  updated iOS Remote app
  updated iOS iMovie app
  updated Find my iPhone app
  store for text message/alert tones
  iPhone Configuration Utility 3.4 for Mac OS X
  ...and of course the iCloud (and iMessage, etc) service itself, including migration tools for MobileMe, etc.

Oh, and the new phone is shipping this week [thanks, smackfu], including its Siri service that relies on a server-side component. And iTunes 10.5 yesterday. And the white iPod touch. OK, I'll stop now.

Just might be a stressful time to be an Apple employee.

I remember it being reported that in the Jobs-Makes-Everybody-Cry-After-MobileMe-Launch-Disaster meeting that he said that one of the major mistakes they made was releasing too much at once - that they should've let MobileMe simmer a while more instead of tying it to the iPhone 3GS launch. Guess we'll see what happens this time. Hard to transition your whole software stack to being integrated with a new cloud service without doing most of these updates at once, I suppose, but they could have shipped the software then waited a month and shipped the phone. Would've been contrary to the "integrated" hardware/software messages that Apple usually has, though.

edit: All in the shadow of a homepage that has nothing but a memorial to Jobs. Classy. And, if they pull it off, should give a nice confidence boost that such feats can be done even in the new era.

nice, that's my page (ios.e-lite.org).

First thought: That's a lot of bandwidth. Second thought: That's a lot of code.

I hope it's a lot of awesome-sauce.

Tried to download, always ended up with a "corrupted" download. Trying again now, it says "5 Hours."

if i had a 3GS i would wait until the next iOS update comes out unless there is a resounding "Wow!" from 3GS users.