iOS 4.3 Review

iOS 4.1 brought much-needed stability and performance improvements to the original release; iOS 4.2 brought iOS 4’s features to the iPad, which arguably needed them even more badly than other iOS devices; iOS 4.3 is polishes the original iOS 4 release to a dull sheen without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

For those of you with supported devices, there’s basically no reason not to download the iOS 4.3 update. You might not notice or use each and every one of its enhancements, but it’s certainly not going to break anything. This is just about as mature as iOS 4 is going to get - we may see the odd update to fix security or stability issues or possibly to bring the Verizon iPhone 4 into the fold, but this is likely the end of the line. If you don't like what you see in iOS 4, your best bet is to wait patiently for iOS 5, which we'll probably see more of later this spring.