Overheard: The Real Reason iPhone Firmware 2.1 Wasn’t Released Tuesday
Posted in Random by Dan at 11:39 am
This post was published 1 year 6 months 10 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.A little birdie dropped an email in my inbox that there is a secret reason WHY firmware 2.1 for the iPhone wasn’t released on Tuesday.
The firmware is finished (the tipster says it has been finished since Sunday) and the only reason the trigger wasn’t pulled was because Apple feared they would suffer another massive server meltdown a-la the great MobileMe outage of ‘08.
The concerns expressed by upper Apple management to the NOC operation team was that between iTunes 8, NBC and High Def TV downloads, Apple online store traffic and Apple.com traffic the additional bandwidth hit from iPhone users would take a nasty toll on Apple’s servers (and their CDN partner Akamai) and decided to scatter the traffic over a few days.
Much better reason than “secret” feature that would kill unlocked or jailbroken iPhones.
makes sense
going to have to wait for yet another pwnage tool anyway, oh well!
I wish Apple would make the iPhone/iPod updates available in a single package. I own both an iPhone and iPod touch and hate downloading about 200MB twice for each update.
I’ve got a pwned iPod Touch, the update didn’t cause any problems at all… not so apple style. :S