I know it wasnt mentioned, but Maps update?

[Walter Bell]

Anyone see any reviews from the hands-on session that mention anything about the maps application? Wondering if there are any major changes with iOS 5?

Thanks

 

[dontwalkhand]

It doesn't look like it. I was hoping the YouTube app would get updated with the ability to look at specific channels, etc.

Thankfully, as Apple would say, there's an App for that . Navigon was the best $30 or so I spent.

 

[TLewis]

There aren't any big changes for maps.

Here's a decent list of iOS5 changes: http://techzoom.org/ios-5-complete-list-of-200-new-features/

 

[pezasied182]

In the presentation when they used Siri with maps it gave alternate routes.

It's at 77:13, look at the iPhone.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html

 

[The Phazer]

I wasn't all that bothered about the lack of hardware changes, but the fact that iOS5 wasn't even hiding a load of unannounced features for the new iPhone was really quite poor. Siri is underwhelming and I'd wager does not work nearly as well as advertised (just as Voice Control didn't), and Apple have been wasting time doing bloody greetings cards and splitting out video, instead of fixing the much more pressing problems in iOS like maps desperately falling behind, or YouTube being terrible, or Safari not being able to do really basic stuff. It's a really, really bad update.

Forstall needs to go.

Phazer

 

[ap3604]

In the presentation when they used Siri with maps it gave alternate routes.

It's at 77:13, look at the iPhone.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html

Thanks for the heads up pezasied! Happy to see this

 

[itsmemuffins]

Would Siri work with 3rd party GPS apps like Navigon?