If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably been checking Software Update a few times every day this week, waiting for Apple to finally dislodge some of its bigger releases from its development pipe: namely, Mac OS X 10.6.5, iTunes 10.1 and iOS 4.2. No luck yet, but according to , all three are imminent… and two of those updates will go live today.
According to sources, Apple will launch Mac OS X 10.6.5 and iTunes 10.1 later today, with iTunes 10.1’s debut heralding the release of iOS 4.2 later this week on Friday, which will finally unify the operating systems between the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad.
We’ve known for awhile that all of these updates were nearly final: iOS 4.2 GM was seeded to developers on November 1st, and OS X 10.65’s near final beta hit developers a day later.
At this point, even the most ill-sourced rumor about when these updates will drop has a passing chance of being true. Needless to say, though, as soon as OS X, iTunes and iOS get updated and are available to download, you’ll hear about it here.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
