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iOS 5 Update Available

tekgoblin writes "Apple has released the iOS 5 update. To update to iOS 5 just open iTunes with your iDevice connected to your computer and press update. I recommend doing a manual backup of your iDevice and make sure all your apps are transferred."

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  1. Re:As usual, not the first for the basics by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But Time Machine just rolls it all up to work perfectly with no learning curve.

    ...except when it doesn't work, ditches your backup volume, and requires a complete new backup. Please stop pretending that Apple technology is more than it is.

    --
    by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
  2. Troll? Re:That didn't take too long to fail by Moridineas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you trolling? I don't think anything at all you've said in your posts is right?

    1) A brand new full iTunes download is 103mb, not 700 as you claimed.

    2) I've never ever had to do anything remotely like you claim about removing kernel extensions and rebooting 3 times with iTunes, and in the past month I have bounced forwards and backwards between several beta versions. (b8 -> b9 -> b7 -> 10.5 all worked flawlessly). Just download a new version of iTunes and the installer will upgrade it anyway.

    3) I just dragged iTunes to the trash. OSX asked for my password. I entered it. It deleted.

    4) If you're not comfortable with GUI instructions and are at all competent with a bash/csh commandline, just fire up terminal and using su or sudo delete to your heart's contact. kextstat / kextunload / kextload can be used to view, load, and unload kernel extensions, but I've only ever had to use those commands when I was developing one. sudo rm -fr /Applications/iTunes.app/ etc

    5) Absolutely false what you claimed about Apple expecting a crashed iPhone to just drain off the battery.

    I'm afraid I've only fed into your ego honey pot, but whatever...