Yea I've had iOS 6 beta running for a few days now and nothing really stands out to me
sure gps is cool and siri but really those are so basic updates, even mountain lion, i was hoping at least one of these two would have some significant changes
I think it's the little things that matter. For instance, I'm looking forward to the "Do not disturb" feature, and also the "remind me to call later" feature when you decline a call. Very small things, but I think they'll make my life a lot easier.
I'm also looking forward to better integration of iCloud documents in Mountain Lion. I know it's a refinement of an already existing feature, but it will be so much easier to find my Pages documents sitting in a folder on my Mac when I come home instead of having to download it from the web. Yes, it would have been best if they had that feature working when Lion was released last year, but things like this happens with big projects, where if you wait until everything is perfectly in place, you'll never release anything. So it's good that they are finally fixing this.
even iphone 5, which is rumored to be last steve jobs work so far seems to me nothing unique,
We don't know any details about the iPhone 5 yet, so how can you judge if it's unique or not?
I'd have to Agree. Who knows what will happen once Apple goes beyond Jobs' roadmap.
Jobs did have a talent for seeing opportunities for innovation that nobody else saw, so long-term, I think Apple will not be quite as innovative as they would have been if Steve were still with us. But I don't think they will turn into just another tech company for quite a while, if ever, because Jobs built a corporate culture at Apple that's different from most other corporations, and such a culture, once set, is very difficult to change. For instance, I just read an aritcle (
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223424) about how Jobs kept meetings small, sometimes by ejecting people who were already sitting at the table. I can see Tim Cook doing the same thing. I don't know if any of the other SVPs would do it, but if they are used to seeing Jobs and Cook do that, then maybe they would just keep doing it as a matter of course. I don't know how long they can pass on the spirit of "keep things simple," but I'm very interested to follow Apple in the coming years to watch what happens.
Siri won't change any more than it already has (if much at all). You're not going to have widespread use of people in offices and street corners yelling at their phone. It has limited use (however useful you find it) and that won't change. Unless of course you cream yourself at the thought of Siri parroting sports scores.
I have a speech disability so I can't "talk" to Siri, but I found that if I say "Hello" (which Siri does understand), then tap the speech bubble with my "Hello" in it, I can edit the bubble, so I edit to type in the question I want to ask. Thought I'd mention that to point out you don't have to yell to use Siri.
😉 And I'm looking forward to using Siri for sports statistics, it seems like it will be faster to ask Siri than to go through Google, especially for questions like "Who is taller."
