Apple Announces iOS 9 With Proactive Siri, Maps Transit, iPad Multitasking and More

[shk718]

If only Siri can be activated the way Google is activated on Android by just saying "OK Google". The only way Siri even comes close is the "hey Siri" option.

It's not activated on every android device - only ones with a special chip - my question is - what is the battery life on that device (I believe only one nexus phone has it - correct me if I'm wrong). Android is notoriously bad on battery life - I doubt this feature helps it.

 

[diamond.g]

It's not activated on every android device - only ones with a special chip - my question is - what is the battery life on that device (I believe only one nexus phone has it - correct me if I'm wrong). Android is notoriously bad on battery life - I doubt this feature helps it.

As far as I can tell battery life isn't noticeably different with the feature on.

That feature should be allowed to turn on for any device running Google Launcher.

 

[garylapointe]

Can I ask how you would expect music based on GPS to work, for instance, you fly to another country?

When traveling to Detroit you could have (at least) three options:
Songs about Detroit.
Songs from artists that are from Detroit (maybe two options: local smaller artist or national big artists)
Genre related to Detroit, such as "Motown".

The "artists from" would be iffy - Some artists are from and affiliate themselves with Detroit: Bob Seger, Kid Rock, Eminem. While some artists don't seem too interested in being affiliated with their location (they just happen to be there).

Kind of another option: When traveling to another town, I'd like to hear artists who are performing locally while I'm there (local artists and/or national artists)

Gary

 

[loon3y]

Why is split view only available for iPad Air 2. Surely my iPad Air can handle this...I cannot think of why Apple would do this other than to try and spur new iPad sales. Not really cool to owners of the not so old original iPad Air

The Air 2 doubles in everything, GPU, CPU, speeds and Ram.

 

[MacOG728893]

They created some API to include apps in Spotlight and Siri search result, but you cannot execute a command on a 3td party app directly with Siri

Dang, so no native Siri support in the popular Todoist app then?

 

[calden]

i am completely unimpressed. The new iPhone features could have been released in a x.1 update.
The news app is a joke, developers have released similar apps years ago, why is apple now trying to do all the apps themselves?
Other than that there are like 4 new features which I probably won't use.

I wouldn't mind Apple creating their own apps if the user was allowed to select their own default apps. This is something that has and will continue to stop me from buying an iPhone. When I need to save a file to my cloud storage, like with every other mobile OS out there I expect to see OneDrive, Google Drive, Box and DropBox listed if the client app is installed on the system. Same thing goes when I want to send a file to someone, I have yet to have seen Outlook listed as an option to send from, just Apple's Mail app, this is absolutely inexcusable for me as I personally don't use a single Apple app. Their fine for people who are just starting out but they just can't compete with the ever growing list of fantastic third party apps. Disagree but you must agree that Apple forcing it's users to use their apps is just plain wrong and I'm absolutely blown away that no one has sued them over this. Microsoft bundles Explorer in Windows XP and was sued, Apple is preventing their users from using other software. Yes they are, again, try to send a file from any app and see which mail app pops up, even though you prefer a different one. Until this and a few other things like running multiple apps in the background the iPhone just isn't in my list of things I want.

 

[MrSmith]

Maybe someday the Maps people will add my business building to the map. It's been months since I first asked. I realize it doesn't do much for your stock (which I do actually own), but at least back up your rhetoric.