iPhone Atlas “previously speculated that Apple is somehow triggering or unlocking iPhone functionality over the EDGE network (or perhaps over any IP-based network, including WiFi connections). The reason for the postulation: the addition of a ‘Send to Web Gallery,’ button that appears in the Camera and Photos applications when clicking the share button (lower left corner when viewing a photo) that did not exist for any iPhone owner prior to August 7th, and did not require any iTunes-based software/firmware installation.”
iPhone Atlas reports that Apple has now addressed this issue in Knowledge Base article #306272:
If the Send to Web Gallery option does not appear on iPhone, and you have installed iPhone Software 1.0.1 or later, press the Home button to exit Photos, wait an hour before you tap Photos, and then try again. During that hour, it’s OK to use other features of iPhone.
iPhone Atlas reports, “This essentially confirms that some sort of network-based trigger — not a time-based mechanism — invokes the ‘Send to Web Gallery’ option… Apple is still not revealing, however, whether the update trigger happens only over EDGE, or can occur over any type of valid network connection. Nor is it saying whether any actual application data is being transferred over the network, or just a unlock trigger.”
Full article here.
yeah so i think everyone is reading way too far into this… it is definitely not an over-edge update… i haven’t synced my phone with my computer since the announcement and I was upset because I didn’t have the send to web gallery option but just tonight I plugged it in and within minutes the new button was there. definitely has to do with the new version of ilife and the .mac activation.
Would it be amazing if they could do updates over the air on EDGE? Other carriers already do this… Is the big question “does Apple do this?” rather than “can Apple do this?”? I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t if they chose to – this has been done for years now.