For those of you not quite as iPhone as I am... Apple issued an iOS update yesterday. 7.1.2 (My iPhone didn't tell me about it, or I didn't see it, but I plugged my iPhone into my computer for another reason, and iTunes told me!!) I installed it, and my Self Hosted 3.0 App is fine. At first I thought it had broken something, but it turned out that I accidentally launched Xcode 6 Beta, which does NOT like one or two statements in my Core. But that's more for this coming Fall. Not now! Apple also issued an update to OSX, 10.9.4, which I just finished installing. Ooops, now I'm updating iPad! Am I ever getting to the grocery store, tonight??

Apple notifies your iOS devices on a staggered basis. I have noticed I get officially notified on my iPhone 5-7 days later it seems. A staggered deployment makes sense for many reasons. -- Niraj

One more reason I like having a jailbroken phone - I don't get device updates forced on me. :)

Do Android devices ever update, like iPhones and iPads? I bought a neat $69 +tax little Visual Land Android tablet at BB last month.

Android does indeed auto-update

Depends on the manufacturer. My Google Nexus always gets the most recent Android OS, but my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is stick on API 16 and probably always will be. Part of the reason why Android has such a hard time rolling out new versions - adoption is bottlenecked by device manufacturers having to test on their old devices and push something out. Most manufacturers don't want to spend money supporting old devices - they'd rather you pay a few hundred dollars and get a new one. And the phone stores don't want the old inventory on hand so they incentivize you getting the older devices. It's a screwy system.

@chris1, You've joined team #jailbreak? Surprising! Do you like it? I've thought about doing it, but I wonder if it would make the software buggy-er (is that even a word?). Cheers, -Cake

I've been jailbroken for a while - if you count rooting on Android as jailbreaking, then I've been that way on my phones since 2010.

Mine is 4.1.1. I'm assuming it cannot be upgraded/updated. http://visual-land.com/107d.html

When I arrived in England and Wales for a 6-month visit in March 2011, my US Apple AT+T iPhone only worked on WiFi. I made a few trips to the Apple Store St David's Mall, Cardiff, Wales, and in early June had saved up the $800+ to get an unlocked iPhone 4. Some iPhones could be bought locked (subsidized) to one of several carriers there, otherwise, unlocked phones were readily available and displayed. So I never had to deal with the mall kiosk jailbreakers on the unlock part, and then never had reason to pursue the rest of the process. I used that phone for 3 years, until last month, in England, Wales, IE (Dublin), CZ (Prague), DE (Berlin), US (Miami/Ft Lauderdale), Berlin, England, Wales, FR (Paris), Las Vegas. A different SIM for each country. I like H2O here in the US. I carry a small zippered kit, just big enough for the cardboard flyers the SIMs came in. Can't wait to do it again, back in Europe and the UK!