I don't know. I am still waiting on my 4s to come in. I guess I didn't pre order it earlie enough. I asume I will have to update it just like I did with my 3gs and ipad
No, the iPhone 4S ships with iOS 5. You may have some small subsequent updates to do by the time yours arrives, but they won't be the massive complete update that iOS 5 was. And, you'll be able to do them over the air if you want, there's no longer a need to connect to a PC or Mac.
I pre ordered mine from att 3 days before it went on sale and I still don;t have it. Typical apple BS. I check yesterday and they told me the backorder was 20-28 days. Talk about a bunch of scumbags.
They're a bunch of scumbags because the demand for the iPhone 4S was out of this world, such that there was no way they'd have been able to meet it? It's been the most successful tech product launch probably ever, even surpassing that of the iPad 2.
If you wanted to make sure to get an iPhone 4S as soon as they were available, you probably should have been ready to pre-order it as soon as they were scheduled to start taking pre-orders. It was pretty clear that it was going to be in huge demand, and was going to sell out very quickly. They had a million pre-orders within 24 hours. The carriers were reporting ridiculous demand metrics. They sold 4 million in the first 3 days of it being available. Pre-orders sold out in 10 minutes when they later became available in Hong Kong, and stores there sold out in 3 hours. It's hard to describe how successful this iPhone has been, and its tremendous success was pretty easy to anticipate (though not quite to the degree we actually ended up seeing).
Apple did what it could to build up stock and channel inventory ahead of the iPhone 4S's release. If it had been any other company, they likely wouldn't have been able to come close to delivering as much product as quickly. The only other thing Apple could have done was wait another week, another month, another 4 months, in order to build up even more inventory - and the release had already come much later than most people would have liked to seen.
I cloud storage is a waste. Everything automatically syncs between all of your devices. That means you have multiple backups. the cloud really isn't need.
The only time icloud would be beneficial would be if you iphone, ipad, and pc all crashed at the same time. I just don't see that happening.
The backup is almost immediate. It only takes a minute or two. As soon as you make a change to any device. The same change is applied across the board instantly.
For example, If I take a picture with my iphone the picture will show up on my ipad in about 2 minutes. As long as the ipad is turned on it accepts the change. It doesn't matter if it is in the locked state or in use. It doesn't not need to be plugged in either.
I don't understand these statements taken in conjunction. The way that the devices sync automatically - e.g., the way that a picture is synced to other devices (or a PC or Mac) automatically when it is taken, or the way a change made to a document appears in copies on other devices - is through iCloud. If you have that option selected, the changes or pictures are uploaded automatically to iCloud, and then they are pushed automatically to whatever devices you've selected that functionality on. You can also, if you choose, back up your device to the iCloud (i.e for things that are specific to that device and wouldn't be synced to other devices). I can see where the latter might not be important to some, as you can do the same backup to iTunes on your PC or Mac by either plugging it in or over Wi-Fi. But, for the kind of syncing you were talking about, iCloud is needed, as that's the way the syncing happens.
Then there's iTunes Match service, which uses iCloud. That just came online 2 days ago. It will mean you'll have access to all of your music on any device without having to have previously uploaded it and used up storage space. I haven't had a chance to use that service yet so I can't comment on how well it actually works - my library is huge and hasn't finished uploading / matching.
I hope your iPhone arrives soon by the way, or has it already arrived?
