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The iOS situation is certainly weird enough to make this seem plausible. 5.0.1 was hastily pushed out, but did not fix some folks' battery problems; then 5.1 wa
by gurkendoktor 15y ago
The iOS situation is certainly weird enough to make this seem plausible. 5.0.1 was hastily pushed out, but did not fix some folks' battery problems; then 5.1 was announced with Photo Stream deletions and an option to disable 3G on the iPhone 4S, yet nothing was released, not even the SDK has been updated lately. 5.0.1 is also by no means bug-free on my devices. What's going on there?
Doesn't this sound a bit like the situation just before Apple announced Mountain Lion out of nowhere?
But then, why would Apple let it leak via the user agent - because this is not considered big news? But why not merge it into the March 7th event?
I hope this is a hoax and we can all enjoy a super-mature iOS 5.1 next week.
- jsz0 15y agoThey're probably adding a few new features to iOS 5.x to launch with the iPad 3. In years past they showed off the next major version in the March/April time-frame but this was when the iPhone was launching in June/July. With an iPhone release later in the year they don't really have to show off iOS6 until WWDC.
- funkah 15y agoI don't think there's anything plausible about inferring anything from a UA string, but you make a good point here. 5.1 should come on Wednesday, hopefully for all current iOS devices and not just iPad 3.