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IOS 4.3 Released Ahead of Schedule

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Home Sharing is great. Apple just lost 200€ because of it. (I wanted to buy a 64GB iPad for my whole music collection but now the smallest model will be good enough for me.)

Is the iOS 4.3 upgrade not going to come out for the iPod Touch 3rd gen? Isn't this the same hardware generation as the iPhone 3GS that is supported by 4.3? Does anyone know?

I don't know, but I can't see even Apple killing off two hardware generations in one go. This is the official end of the 2nd gen just now. (Although the iOS 4.0 update made that obvious) .

Iirc, the betas supported the third gen so the only reason to kill it off is to avoid the complications of the lower specced 8gb third gen.

It installed without a problem on my 3rd generation iPod touch (64GB) and the Apple website says that it’s compatible with 3rd generation iPod touches [0]. Why are you asking? Is it not working for you?

I’m actually wondering whether 4.3 works on the 8GB “3rd generation” (by name only) iPod touches since those had identical specs to 2nd generation iPod touches. Apple’s website is quiet about that so I assume it works.

[0] Scroll all the way down: http://www.apple.com/ios/

Thanks! I asked because Ars reported that it was available for "4th-generation iPod touch". Your response was exactly what I was hoping for, as I wasn't in a position to try it myself.

The update readme that comes up in iTunes says:

    Products compatible with this software update:

    - iPhone 4 (GSM model)

    - iPhone 3GS

    - iPad

    - iPod touch (4th generation)

    - iPod touch (3rd generation)

But keep in mind, the 3rd Gen iPod touch only inludes the 16 & 32 GB models, and not the 8GB they sold along side it. The 8GB was really still a second-Gen iPod.

Personal hotspot works perfectly. Actually, even better than perfectly since it's activated on my iphone without me paying anything extra for it. Very nice.

It looks like it doesn't work on 3GS. I wonder if there's any technical limitation preventing it to work or just a marketing strategy.

As a jailbreak developer: there is not.

Doesn't it? It is present on mine, but when I click to set it up, it tells me to contact my carrier to enable it on my account, so I haven't tested it.

Care to elaborate?

When can we hope to get a 4.3 for Verizon?

I hope we're not going to start seeing from fragmentation like Android already has, as this post correctly observes:

http://shysnowsquare.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/no-fragmentati...

The same thing happened with the original iPad, most likely, as was noted above, 4.3 was already nearly done when the Verizon iPhone was being prepared, as seen by many 4.3 features being in the current ViPhone. Most likely the next release or the June iOS 5 will again reunite the lines. This has happened before.

  An Apple representative told us after the iPad 2
  announcement that iOS 4.3 won't be coming to the Verizon
  iPhone anytime soon because it had just launched, but that
  the OS versions will likely converge sometime in the future.

I was wondering about this; why does it matter that it just launched...

Usually, Apple forks off the software that ships on new hardware releases in the name of secrecy.

The functionality gets merged, as they mentioned, in the next release that starts after the people working on it know about the new hardware. 4.3 was almost certainly in the pipeline already when the CDMA phone came out.

Fragmentation!

The update appears to be available to Canadian customers as well. I'm looking forward to trying the personal WiFi zone.

Update: Nay-nay! The update is available for my iPad but not for my iPhone 3G. Bah.

It was known ahead of time that the 3G was not going to be getting the new update and would be made obsolete by Apple.

My poor iPhone 3G...or maybe I should be happy since my phone got progressively less useful with every update. Very eager to see what iOS 5 has in store.

My iPhone 4 is updated (via iTunes), but so far there's nothing newer than 4.2 available for my iPad (according to iTunes).

Do you need an active tethering subscription with your carrier (in my case, AT&T) to use the personal hotspot feature?

Please do not confuse iOS with Cisco IOS.

No one is.

The title appears to be.

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