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iOS 6... success or fail?
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I'm certainly not wild about it... definitely some nice features, but not as robust or fully implemented as I would like.
Maps are terrible.
Do not disturb is good, but should be better implemented with more options.
Overall, I'd give it a C.
Maps are terrible.
Do not disturb is good, but should be better implemented with more options.
Overall, I'd give it a C.
I certainly don't find it the most exciting thing but I don't think it is a fail. There is a lot of potential and applications may not have taken advantage of yet. I'd say pretty good, I have no problems that I'm aware of, but I'd say final grade is yet to come.
it's hard to imagine what will be in the next update for all phones. I know 6.3.5 or something like that will kill off the 3GS and iPad 2.
iOS 6 upgrade was the worst ever experience for me.
Wifi issues on 2x iPad 2 and 1x iPad 3. Other apps issues too. Some wouldn't open, some were slower or prone to crashing after the upgrade. Wiping the devices clean and setting up from scratch was the only solution for me. Same identical problems on an iPhone 3GS and an iPhone 4S. None of the upgrades went without issues.
One upgrade failed completely on an iPad 2 and needed safe mode restore. Same problem on the iPhone 4S.
Since wiping everything clean and starting with a fresh iOS 6 the wifi issues have gone away and performance is decent again on all devices. Battery life worse on my iPhone 4S after the upgrade though. Noticeably worse.
Experience was so bad I've now held off upgrading any other devices for friends and family. I don't dare risk the problems.
My opinion of Apple is rapidly on the decline.
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for my use it's proved a useless update (iPad2). battery life now sucks, no siri, maps blows and none of the other updates do anything for me (200 updates yeah right). i really miss my jailbreak. i thought 'what the hell, i'll give it a go'. big letdown. you couldn't pay me to put it on my iPhone 4.
iOS 6 is not a major breakthrough in anyway.. It is the same as iOS 5. Except for maps Cough cough.
I'm sorry for repeating and not that I'm totally thrilled but this isn't just 5 with maps. There is facebook integration (which I don't care about), passbook, security changes (you know when apps request access) mail changes, notification changes, etc. They may be small items especially if you don't care about them specifically but there are a lot of changes. We also need for time for app vendors to take advantage of changes. Most app changes have been to support the iPhone 5 hardware whose support is also a change. I'm sure we'll see, over some time, things come out that take advantage of changes in 6.
I think iOS5.1.1 is at the moment the best and most refined mobile operating sistem. iOS5 with passbook, do not disturb, shared photostream, facebook integration, updated safari and mail would be way better and more coherent than iOS6 as it is now.
Success. It's not a huge upgrade, and I think the days of massive leaps are behind us. This is all about refinement. So far I've had great battery life, no crashes and the turn by turn is good. That's not to say I don't have any issues - sent mail sound behaviour isn't as expected, maps POIs are out of date, and still unable to share a photo from the lock screen camera app - but they're minor issues.
I was suprised that Apple released OS6 with the disaster with the maps and the battery isn't that good either not when you have bluetooth headphones & your listening to a radio station over 3G 2hrs 30 mins and your iPhone flat good job that i have a external power source to keep me topped up when i am out and about and i need some power for my iPhone
Not having to enter my password for free updates is a great plus. Like find my friends for nights out etc and do not disturb is a great feature. Once pass book gets more companies signed up I reckon it will be a handy feature so overall I am happy.
I rarely use maps away so haven't been impacted by it. Oh and it's a free upgrade so whats to complain about.
I rarely use maps away so haven't been impacted by it. Oh and it's a free upgrade so whats to complain about.
That is iOS 6.
Not really
Ios6 has the new maps, an ugly music app, a terrible podcast app, a terrible iTunes match implementation, slow and messy app store, itunes store, ibook store, you can't gift apps anymore and we are left with a youtube app that doesn't support airplay and multitasking.
These are a lot of regressions in my opinion. And they are in key areas. It never happened before, or at least i can't remember iOS releases with regressions. Bugs yes, but not regressions in features and usability. Also there is a huge variety of styles between different parts of the OS. It feels unfinished and not polished.
iOS5 was quite buggy at version 5.0.0, but it was huge (icloud, imessage...pc free!) and was a great improvement with no functional regression that i can remember.
I think 2012 has been a great year at Apple, for the hardware division, but the software division performance has been very poor (with the big exception of mountain lion)
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I think its a really nice update, but there was not a whole lot of new stuff added to the OS. Nothing major. I really wanted some other options in notification centre. Hopefully iOS 7 will deliver in that section.
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Not really
Ios6 has the new maps, an ugly music app, a terrible podcast app, a terrible iTunes match implementation, slow and messy app store, itunes store, ibook store, you can't gift apps anymore and we are left with a youtube app that doesn't support airplay and multitasking.
These are a lot of regressions in my opinion.
I think Maps is much improved, it's just lacking some source data, easily added.
I also really like the podcast app and the new store redesigns. Gifting will probably be re-added soon.
The YouTube is also much better and it's down to Google to add more features and hopefully iPhone 5 support.
I don't consider it to be a regression at all, just a bit of transitional time is required.
Considering it was only done to augment the release of a new phone with slightly different dimensions and processor speed, I'm not sure why anyone would expect it to be some massive update.
If it was an iOS update WITHOUT an associated hardware release? I think most would be somewhat underwhelmed.
If it was an iOS update WITHOUT an associated hardware release? I think most would be somewhat underwhelmed.
