Confused: IOS = iTunes? No/yes?

Ok I have the iPhone 4, love it, love it, love it. Works very well! I've had it since Feb thru Verizon. I hook it to iTunes once in a while. I've seen the discussions about upgrading IOS & then basically your phone is useless. Well when I hooked up my phone to iTunes this am it said an upgrade was available. I said cancel -huge red flag after reading stuff on here. But then I was wondering -are the iTunes upgrades what's killing everyone's phones? I'm due to upgrade to iTunes 4.2.8 but am really apprehensive about it. My theory is if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm not having any issues downloading apps or them not working. Would I be better off to leave well enough alone? Does IOS & iTunes upgrade mean the same thing?

runjennrun wrote:
I said cancel -huge red flag after reading stuff on here.......
You mean you came to a support forum and found people talking about problems. That is what it is here for, people really only make a noise when something isn't right.
When you buy a new car and have issues with it you complain to the dealer for as long as the issue is current, (or maybe even longer). If that car was absolutely perfect how many times do you think you'd be making a trip to the dealer to shake his hand?
That said, it's your device and it's difficult not to be swayed by negativity. Just bear in mind that many thousands of people, (or more even), have had no upgrade problems at all.
Although I can only guess at that number and can't speak for anybody else on here, one thing I can confirm is that there have been at least two trouble free upgrades. In Apples IOS history. Mine and my partners.

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Sush@nt wrote:
I went to settings and found the iCloud option. For each of them, i got an ON/OFF switch which i understand can be toggled so that I may select what to backup on my iCloud.
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2. I have one more option - "Backup on iCloud" in iTunes11. What does that mean ?
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