I think you miss something important here. iOS wants to remain unobtrusive, and a notification "center" is surely one clumsy way of grouping everything. Notifications shouldn't stick anywhere; you glance at them quickly, then they automatically disappear. If you need to look at them for a few seconds each wondering if it requires immediate intervention or not, the issue is not iOS, it's the originating app's.-updated UI
-notification center
-multitasking
-facetime group chat
-shared video streams
-decent notes app
-better siri
-better maps
multitasking: isn't it already perfectly working? My Nokia does "true" multitasking, and it drains juice in no time. Probably not what you want to have.
facetime group chat: why not... If you were lucky enough to find even one person willing to Facetime with you. Personally this was only for testing purpose, but with no practical application, since most people still don't have an iPhone ($800 hurts, even when you have money). But I get your point here. I would like to see an iChat-like application on iOS with multi-user chat and messages.
shared video streams:What are you referring to, specifically? One can send a link to a video stream, if that's what you're referring to..
What application are you comparing the iOS notes to?
+1 for Siri. I never used it, but read it had trouble with accents and non-English languages.
Maps is currently the butt of many jokes. Even if my place is accurately represented, many places aren't. I just love the navigation, much more flexible than previous Google versions.
I wish you were right, but it wouldn't be the first time that Apple messes up with loyal customers.There's no point catering to their needs and messing up the existing LOYAL customers.
In recent history, there was the FireWire port removal on unibody MacBooks, the removal of the ExpressCard 34 slot on 15" MacBook Pros, the termination of the 17" MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro, and, absence of high-power compact laptop to replace the 12" G4, and in some regards, the design change leading to unibody, as well as the termination of the optical drive in larger Macs.
Mac OS X Lion and up also dumbed down the OS compared to Snow Leopard in many regards, including the loss of back-compatibility without any satisfactory replacement (Lost Front Row, Rosetta, added Launchpad, etc.). So we have reasons to be wary of Apple's "evolutive" moves.