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Apple Announces iOS 6 with Siri Improvements, Facebook Integration, New Maps App, Passbook for Fall Release
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Go get an Android device and you have a high probability of getting no update, ever and just as high a probability the device will be running an outdated OS from the first day you buy it.
I teach English in South Korean. Korean students are 100% unimpressed and bored by my demonstrations of SIRI because all their Samsung devices have much more sophisticated speak recognition software (Korean is an easier language for machines to recognize).
What really blows their minds is the ever taken-for-granted Google and it's ability to find very obscure and specific information, statistics, images, data
What really blows their minds is the ever taken-for-granted Google and it's ability to find very obscure and specific information, statistics, images, data
The point being Android devices come out with a old OS and never get updated... compaired to this iPad which cam out with the current version at the point of sale and got several OS updates over its lifetime. I think it sucks the original iPad won't get IOS6 when the 3GS will, but the alternative is much worse.
You can't have it both ways. I find it somewhat contradictory to complain that iOS 6 has nothing to offer - then freak out because you can't update your original iPads with it. If it has nothing new to offer, then why do you care? It's not as if all original iPads are going to go dead and blank on the day iOS 6 releases and function nevermore. They will offer us the same (in my opinion, great) iOS 5 experience that we've been having all along. In fact, I don't think that Apple is trying to "force" you to buy a new iPad. I think they're figuring that you can continue to enjoy using the device running iOS 5 that you purchased and presumably are pretty happy with. And if really you can't live with continuing to use iOS 5, then yeah, maybe you do need new hardware.
And as far as those bemoaning the fact that we haven't gotten a major OS overhaul - if it ain't broke, don't fix it! iOS is a great operating system that has helped Apple to become the most valuable public company in the world. Not to mention, customer satisfaction ratings of the iPhone 4S are in the 90th percentile. Android phones? Not so much. Overhauling something that is incredibly popular and successful in the name of "innovation" would be the utmost stupidity.
And as far as those bemoaning the fact that we haven't gotten a major OS overhaul - if it ain't broke, don't fix it! iOS is a great operating system that has helped Apple to become the most valuable public company in the world. Not to mention, customer satisfaction ratings of the iPhone 4S are in the 90th percentile. Android phones? Not so much. Overhauling something that is incredibly popular and successful in the name of "innovation" would be the utmost stupidity.
foodog said:
Maybe that's the alternative for you. If I didn't have an iPad, I wouldn't have a tablet. Weak competitors can't be an excuse for everything.
iPads are web browsing machines. Not getting security updates for your browser and OS sucks. Nothing stops Apple from releasing 5.1.2 after 6.0 of course. But since 5.1.1 has been jailbroken and is still unpatched after weeks, I guess we won't see another 5.x version.
SendTab and the like
I didn't have an iPhone back then, but in 2010 I used things such as SendTab with various desktop browsers, so I assume that there were other products that worked with multiple tabs
I didn't have an iPhone back then, but in 2010 I used things such as SendTab with various desktop browsers, so I assume that there were other products that worked with multiple tabs