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Apple on Tuesday issued what appeared to be a minor update to its iPhone 3G smart phone, noting in its terse support documentation only that the release "fixes bugs." But the size of the iPhone 2.0.2 update, as it's called--a massive 250 MB--belied Apple's attempts at passing this off as a minor update.

It sounds like a full update of the application framework. It doesn't necessarily indicate how many bugs existed in the previous release. The size of the update is a non-issue for most users.

[justlurking]

t sounds like a full update of the application framework. It doesn't necessarily indicate how many bugs existed in the previous release. The size of the update is a non-issue for most users.

I read that and immediately discounted the rest of the article as BS.

Every update is 250MB, because Apple updates the entire device, rather than doing a partial patch. It's a much more reliable (and less error-prone) method.