Apple May Provide Over-the-Air Updates for iOS, Mac OSX

Orchard apple tree will provide finished-the-air updates for iOS 5, while the coming version of Mac OSX Lion will be delivered via the Mac App Storage, reported to two separate reports. As an alternative of having users chained to iTunes for their iOS updates, Apple English hawthorn introduce wireless Atomic number 76 updates, removing the need for a computer in the process.

Apple is wide expected to introduce a new version of its mobile OS this year, and 9 To 5 Mac reports that one of the features will be over-the-air updates. Although iOS 5 will not come over-the-air itself, full point updates will be delivered wirelessly, and Apple is reportedly in talks with Verizon about that. Because of intricacies with the wireless update system, Apple would take over to reduce the size of iOS updates (which are big than 600MB) and also introduce a cloud-based accompaniment system, independent of iTunes tethering.

Dissimilar Google, which updates Humanoid wirelessly, Apple's current update system allowed the company to keep iOS users updated in no time. TechCrunch points to a good example: the iPhone location update, where all users are able to update within matchless week, spell Android's 2.3 update is installed only on 4 percent of eligible devices after five months of availability. The slow update process on Android is mainly because of manufactures (which need to update their custom user interfaces early) and carriers, which need to rescue the updates wirelessly. Information technology will be gripping to figure whether carriers wish bottleneck Orchard apple tree's over-the-breeze iOS updates in the future, as well.

In related tidings, Apple is also changing the manner it delivers OS updates to Mac desktops and laptops, according to an AppleInsider theme. Mac OSX Lion is set to come this summer, and unlike now, information technology South Korean won't come on a DVD (surgery USB drive in the character of the MacBook Air), the report says. The Mac App Memory wish be used instead to deliver the new OS, that's if you have Panthera uncia already. Presently, Apple is allowing developers to download pre-release builds of Lion via redemption codes in the Mac App Store, so a full-fledged deployment is in all likelihood. IT is believed OSX Lion DVDs will still be around for those with slow connections.

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