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Anyone really Disappointed today with the lackluster announcements ? Rate it1 to 10 !

8/10

Overall, pretty dang good.

Would have been a 9/10 with streaming, and a 10/10 with a suprise iPhone 5 & iOS 5 release next week. :)

BTW, as a rule, I scale things like this: "Average" is a 5/10. "Perfection" is a 10/10. So if you ask me to grade your wife and I tell you she's a 6/10, please don't punch my lights out. I just graded her at a clearly "above average" spot. What's wrong with that? ;)

So an 8/10 is dang good in my book.
 
I expect to hear about more features/changes to iOS5 in the coming months. This announcement was to lay the ground work and release the SDK. They need to save some talking points for the iPhone5 announcement in the fall. Even Apple would have a hard time talking about just the new hardware for an hour.
 
What is this new keyboard thing? Something about it spits out and is better for thumb typing?
 
Reach9 said:
I'd rate it a 8.5/10, I would give it a 10/10 if Springboard and complete Voice Control were added into iOS. But overall i'm very happy.

Funny how ignorant some people are, right?
For the longest time i've heard "the next iOS should have x,y,z features from jailbreaking". And now that Apple has done this, people are complaining "yawn i can do this on my jailbroken iPhone". Stay classy people.

Now, i can safely say iOS > Android OS.
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Merely implementing what's been in the JB community for a year does not give Apple a 10/10.
 
I am quite impressed.. Pretty much added everything iOS needed.
Was it inovative? Depends how you look at it. Yes the cloud idea is old, but the implementation has yet to be done correctly. Opening up the cloud API to developers is amazing. Definitely something we plan to add to future apps.. One thing we hope to take advantage of is using the cloud to sync save games So you can switch from an iPhone to an iPad without having to start over.

Just wait for developers to start using these new APIs, that is where things change.

Bawstun said:
What is this new keyboard thing? Something about it spits out and is better for thumb typing?
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For iPad only.
 
A big fat zero. Why? Because there wasn't an original thought behind anything they introduced. Everything was copied either from the jailbreak community or Android.
 
I give it a 8.. Just because I know ALOT of people where expecting to hear something on a new iphone.. I'm glad that it wasn't said... I'm sure it angered alot of people.


James
 
Some of these posts are funny.

I assume that the majority of iPhone customers don't jailbreak (I mean the vast majority of casual consumers, and not the hardcore type who frequent forums).

How, in any way, is bringing decent features to more users in any way bad??
 
I'd give it a 5. I have little interest in cloud storage and I don't run OS X. What was with all the new Time Capsule rumors in the past few days but nothing mentioned?
 
solowmodel said:
Some of these posts are funny.

I assume that the majority of iPhone customers don't jailbreak (I mean the vast majority of casual consumers, and not the hardcore type who frequent forums).

How, in any way, is bringing decent features to more users in any way bad??
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You raise an interesting question.

What percent of iPhone users jailbreak? Obviously the % is pretty high around here. But overall, is there any info available to quantify that?

OP:
I read some blogs and tried to watch a few crappy streams. So I haven't digested it all yet. But I'd say 7/10 from what I have seen.
 
EddyP said:
You raise an interesting question.

What percent of iPhone users jailbreak? Obviously the % is pretty high around here. But overall, is there any info available to quantify that?

OP:
I read some blogs and tried to watch a few crappy streams. So I haven't digested it all yet. But I'd say 7/10 from what I have seen.
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I'm doing postgrad studies in London, so I see a fair few iPhones around, especially amongst the student population.

One could (reasonably?) assume that the younger generation would be more likely to jailbreak. Nonetheless, amongst my immediate circle of friends only 1 has jailbroken and even he doesn't delve deep into the full customizations.

I realise my experiences are a (very) small sample of the overall user base and it could be a biased sample set blah blah, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the case for a larger sample.

Anyway, I'd love to see figures as well.
 
Those who bicker are quite stupid. Apple's notification system kicks all the other JB notification program's asses- and it will run better. iOS 5 looks incredible and I have never been so excited about a software update. Only that wasn't improved that I wish it was, was the voice control which has sort of been a bastard child since it's inception.

I rate today's keynote at a 9/10 with last years being a 7/10.
 
stockscalper said:
A big fat zero. Why? Because there wasn't an original thought behind anything they introduced. Everything was copied either from the jailbreak community or Android.
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I'm happy. They took what has been very popular in those community and are adding them. Glad to see Apple isn't just ignoring what users want.
 
EddyP said:
You raise an interesting question.

What percent of iPhone users jailbreak? Obviously the % is pretty high around here. But overall, is there any info available to quantify that?

OP:
I read some blogs and tried to watch a few crappy streams. So I haven't digested it all yet. But I'd say 7/10 from what I have seen.
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Actually to act on these thoughts I posted a poll. The sample will be more tech-savvy biased, but it will be interesting!^^
 
8/10

I think Lion is going to be badass. Not much else for me to say about it other than I can't wait to get my hands on it.

I'm very pleased with what they've shown with iOS 5. Apple just keeps making a great platform even better. To those complaining about iOS 5 not haveing "x" feature, you realize that Forstall only covered 10 of the 200 new features, right? Let's reserve judgment until iOS 5 is released, shall we?

As for iCloud...Just, wow. This is easily (IMO) the best part to come out of the keynote. I'm really excited to start using it. I've already managed to get a lot of songs back that I lost two years ago. Over 100 songs and a couple music videos. It's amazing so far!
 
A few nice things but nothing to wow me.

Tabbed browsing and instant message apps are already out there anyway nothing new.

No proper multi tasking, wiglets, I was looking for improved camera options like other camera phones, new backgrounds replacing the current one that's been around since last year, I'd have liked more exclusive iPad 2 features but just looks minor updates, Bluetooth to all phones? Flash?

If today's announcement was meant to keep people away from Samsung, Blackberry and so on then it fails it just improves what we have it doesn't revolutionise anything it's still apple limiting on features. So some nice small features but nothing big, take away this new cloud service and IOS just looks a small update.

If they added flash, improved camera features, proper bluetooth I think people may have said yes major update. But no typical.
 
10/10 - How many companies announce this much new stuff in one day? Apple listened to me, I participated in the customer study, and everything I asked for in the customer study is showing up in iOS5, including... The most important thing to me, instant access to taking a photo from my lock screen, not having to enter the unlock code... THANK GOD..

$29 bucks for a MAJOR operating system upgrade???? SWEET... Microsoft charges $100+ (in most cases you'll pay $150-200 for an upgrade on a Microsoft OS)...

And then to top it all off, being able to scan all 15,000 of my tracks and put them in the cloud for 25 bucks a year... AMAZING...

Then throw in taking a photo on my iphone and having it sync over the air with all my devices... GET OUTTA HERE!!!

The only disappointment for me was using Twitter instead of Facebook. Facebook users outnumber Twitter by the millions, so I don't know why they couldn't have included both in iOS5.
 
I give it an 8/10. It would be a 10/10 if something like SBSettings was added.
 
some of u guys need to chill with the name calling.

respect other peoples views


you make apple fanboys like myself look bad.

some would say you are drinking the apple koolaid big time. :rolleyes:
 
Was hoping for something better of the current multitasking. All in all, decent showing by Apple. 6.5/10
 
BlindMellon said:
Merely implementing what's been in the JB community for a year does not give Apple a 10/10.
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It does for me, isn't that what jailbreaking was for? Features that we'd like to see on the iPhone, but never got. And i got my most important ones.
Only thing lacking is more voice control and customization.

I believe the weather and stocks apps in the Notification Bar is the future of 'widget's.
 
How about a minus 5 score? - 5

Here's why:

#1 no new hardware? FAIL
#2 notifications? yawn... other platforms had this in oh say 2001. FAIL
#3 wireless sync? see#2, available elsewhere since 2001. FAIL
#4 Twitter integration? I don't want Twiiter, Facebook or any other social crap nowhere near my phone. FAIL
#5 iOS in fall? That's eternity in tech time. Mega FAIL

Shall I go on?

There's your - 5 score.
 
Taking everything in account and the total improvements this will make and how the core integration and api access will make a huge impact going forward, I think it would be pretty much impossible to make a more significant or impactful announcement without any hardware if they wanted to...

This was a very significant day in the history of IOS. These things are going to fundamentally change the way things work going forward in the IOS universe. It is massive.
 
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