“Reports have been surfacing about Apple retail stores running out of stock of Time Capsules and AirPort base stations,” Chris Foresman reports for Ars Technica. “That’s usually an indicator that a hardware revision is coming soon, and it appears Apple may make its updated Time Capsules far more useful for Mac OS X and iOS users.”
“According to sources speaking to 9to5 Mac, Apple has been internally testing using Time Capsules as an intermediary cache for software updates for Mac OS X and iOS,” Foresman reports. “The Time Capsule can recognize what devices connect to it, and then download and store updates for those devices on its integrated storage.”
MacDailyNews Note: For more, see related article: Apple reportedly testing cached software updates via Time Capsule for Mac and iOS devices – June 2, 2011
Foresman reports, “Our own source tells Ars that the revised hardware is believed to be built around Apple’s own A4 or A5 processor, and will run iOS much like the most recent Apple TV model.”
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