it's a shame that the slide to unlock and the camera button are still stuck in the past. they look so out of place when the new music controls are on show
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iOS 6.1 Beta 2: New Features & Improvements (fixes) Thread
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it's not a surprise seeing as how people here went crazy over the new passbook welcome screen
meanwhile other mobile OSes are leaping iOS in terms of features...etc
What would you rather it be like? I'm not trying to defend it, I'm curious what your ideas are on it. These things can always get better.
more like the design of the new controls and less like the aqua look from previous versions of iOS. something a bit more rugged maybe?
It would be nice in 6.1 (at least intorducing it in beta 3) if the music app was like itunes 11 is, with the sliding open of an album when pressed instead of it spinning around like it currently does...all in the name of uniformity of course! Where are you beta 3????
I wouldn't mind some flare for sure.. I would also like the "up next" music queuing.. That would be a nice addition.
I'll add a +1 to that. I hate sitting there waiting for the current song to end so I can start the next one I want to hear. Boggle my mind why no one at Apple thought of this sooner.
We probably won't see it for a couple updates though. I'm shooting for iOS 9 maybe? haha
Haha, that makes sense.. It needs to get here sooner than later though; at least for the sake of consistency with OSX/iOS. I just wonder if some people would really want that feature on a phone.. I know I would!
I think it could be one of those things Apple could implement quietly, that way those people who would use it can, and those who don't wouldn't care that its there. It doesn't need to be a big highlight.
Jonathan Ive is new designer and we should expect something else as we have never seen before. Unfortunately we will not see some crucial changes in iOS 6.1 but iOS 7 can bring another way of thinking about Apple iOS. Do you agree?
Okay for the ones bitching about the weather widget animating... It DOES animate. But only when it's very foggy or cloudy. It doesn't animate ALL the time, just when it's very cloudy. Look at @Surenix photos on Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/Surenix (not me) he confirms it. It's been around since iOS 6.0. So yes it does animate.
Is it ironic that the chippy up the road from me (in England), that's now closed, used to sell battered mars bars?
So nice!!Saw a battered cream egg on the menu at a seaside chippy once, but didn't try it.
I did that with iOS 5, and even though I only paid $5 I realized that its not really worth having a buggy beta. I mean sure it's cool to have the OS before but it has a **** load of bugs. This may not be the case in this specific event but you know what I mean. BUT you may be able to justify yourself to get it. Happens to me all the time
I wasn't asking if it was worth it, i was asking if it was safe. Anyone else want to weigh in?
No, you pay if you want to put any app in the App store. You could develop in Xcode and side-load onto your own devices for free all day, but if you want to submit to the App store, you pay $99.