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by cheald 4284 days ago
It's surprising to me that those would even differ in the first place. You'd think that you'd have a single deliverable which is delivered and signed, and the installer does the same thing regardless of where it gets the package. What makes OTA different from iTunes?
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The iTunes update is the entire OS patched, so it's like a 2GB download. The OTA update is a delta update, which is only 75MB or so.
Ah, got it!