Jeremy Parker's Blog

Ok, I love the features 4.2 adds, however, I think Apple needs to consider changing their update process. For some awful reason it’s downloading extremely slow, says around 1-2 hours to finish downloading. Now, when I went through the update on my iPad, it downloaded in around 5-10 minutes and then took nearly an hour to backup the iPad before it could start the update. A little background, I have 35Mbps Internet, and everything else downloads fine, and I am using a USB 2.0 compatible system.

What would be really nice is if during that download process if they would go ahead and do the iPhone or iPad backup so as soon as the download is done it can start the update process. Obviously this might not work for every situation, such as when people are using the device while the file is downloading, but with a little conditional logic, they should be able to handle this.

Just my thoughts Looking forward to 4.2 on my iPhone since I updated my iPad when it was released in November.