Why does it take SO long to synchronize my iphone with my macbook pro

Hi fellow users,
It takes unbelievable long for my iPhone 4S to synchronise with my MacBook Pro. Happens everytime.
I started the synch early yesterday evening (19:00). It is now 10:35 the following day and it is still not finished.
Has anyone any ideas?
Have a great day Desmond, a Brit living in Germany.

I have this aggravating issue as well, only I just have an iPhone 4s 16GB (yes, STILL!). One of the (many) reasons I haven't upgraded is the deteriorating performance factors induced by Apple. If it takes forever to sync just a 16GB iPhone, syncing a 64GB or 128GB iPhone must be an all day test of aggravation! Since I'm finding no credible or relevant answers here I thought I'd post my observations. When I watch the sync process, I can see that the procedure backs up my iPhone data, removes it from the phone, then reinstalls it again with any updates to the data since the last sync. This is a programming "feature". I don't know what the reasons are for not designing the sync process to handle only changed data as in any other data backup process. Maybe it's laziness at Apple, maybe it's a technical issue that their programmers are incapable of solving, or maybe there's a monitoring aspect involved that this method allows Apple to collect information on users more effectively. I just don't know their reasons for this, or many baffling things they do. I do know that if their corporate data backups were performed in the same manner in which the iPhone sync is performed, there would never be a break in the backup processes at Apple, nor would the process ever complete. It's ludicrous to program the SW (iTunes) run this inefficiently. I can't fathom having a larger capacity iPhone and dealing with the constant aggravation of what must be hours to sync simple data changes caused only by the poor routine programmed into iTunes. From what I can see, it's basically like loading a blank phone every time I want to sync data. Completely ridiculous as far as I can tell. Even if the reasoning is to remove dead sectors, blank sectors etc, I'd think with all the money Apple has and makes on a quarterly basis, they could afford to spend the time and money in R&D to make the sync process a **** of lot more tolerable for users.

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