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iOS 6's Smaller Changes: Custom Email Alerts, 'Find My Friends' Geofencing and More
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Some things missing, true, and some of the things that have been announced are cool. But I really hope they fix the music app! It would be nice to be able to view a play list in the form of a list! (unless I'm missing something)....
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I'm really happy about that also. Though I had been hoping for a bigger change with passwords, both with our Apple account passwords and the device passwords. People keep them short (and hence, insecure) because it's too tedious to type them again and again. I thought Apple might present something like facial recognition authentication, or perhaps voice matching using their Siri voice-processing tech.
Security is important to me, but so is convenience. I think most people would agree with that, as so much of our personal data and business data can be lost or stolen easily. I hope Apple takes a closer look at a solution to these problems at odds with each other.
The Os Looks more refined and is more consistent now than at any time since 7.5 i use bluetooth file exchange daily between my imac and my samsung galaxy phone. Zero issue. What issues/bugs are u experiencing?
The slider reflection is a perfect example of attention to detail, what are you talking about? It's a minr detail which has recieved attention. What more do you need to forfil your definition?
Apple has always been about the little things done in a stylish way, it is their ethos and reflected throughout both operating systems.
Except the new apple tv interface, which sucks.
I love that you don't have to enter your password to download an update, but I wonder why you need to enter your password to re-download a previously purchased app?
First purchase of free apps I understand, you are linking an app to your accout, the free app may be temporarily free and you'll want access to it later, also there are apps you wouldn't necessarily want associated with your account (grindr, sex positions apps, karma sutra, 100+ crude jokes, fart apps etc etc)
First purchase of free apps I understand, you are linking an app to your accout, the free app may be temporarily free and you'll want access to it later, also there are apps you wouldn't necessarily want associated with your account (grindr, sex positions apps, karma sutra, 100+ crude jokes, fart apps etc etc)
Alarm with song? iOS has been laughed at for a long time because it couldn't do that. They're finally adding it!
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I think free apps that are rated "G" (or whatever the lowest rating is) should not require the password.
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It's interesting because the seem to be basing all of their designs off of the PowerMac G5.
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I think free apps that are rated "G" (or whatever the lowest rating is) should not require the password.
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It's interesting because the seem to be basing all of their designs off of the PowerMac G5.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Let's not confuse progression with trying to go bullet-for-bullet with Android features. They are going to do a lot of stupid stuff that Apple shouldn't copy (as well as doing a lot of clever stuff that Apple should copy, to be sure). I don't understand the preoccupation with having weather on your lock screen, for instance... Most of us aren't farmers. Is it really the most important thing to have up front? Let's hope Apple is thinking about the benefits before they just implement the easiest thing. If you put this on the home screen, that means customers will expect it there and it precludes you from putting something else, more useful there instead. Now I hope they do keep making slow and steady additions to the OS, and maybe there is something better they can do with the lock screen, but don't ask them to rush it if the Android idea is less than perfect. If we had gotten cut and paste right away then we may have been stuck with a lesser implementation (Android) that would have been with us even now. Most normal people aren't so into their gadgets that you can change system behaviors all the time. Apple's end goal, I believe, is to be the stable rock that makes sense. Their marketing stays the same for long periods of time; their OS looks similar for a long period of time; heck, even Jobs' outfit stayed the same for a long time... It's creating a mythos of dependability, and looking over a long period of time they appear more stable more sure of their footing. Not frantic, changing half-baked features like their competitors.
There are changes I could go for. Ones that really do seem inevitable. I'd love live icons; now that would be a real great improvement. Maybe the weather icon could just show the weather on it. I really don't care that much about the weather. It's sunny out the window and it's June. Safe to say it's warm and it's not far if I want to check it. There's a lot Apple can do to display more information to the user... Maybe they can have a different display of the home screen when you turn your device horizontally. Maybe there's a smarter way for me to control brightness on my iPhone. That's really the only thing I need to return to settings for all the time right now. But I don't know if an icon on the lock screen is the answer. Maybe it is. Maybe it's not.
Let's not confuse progression with trying to go bullet-for-bullet with Android features. They are going to do a lot of stupid stuff that Apple shouldn't copy (as well as doing a lot of clever stuff that Apple should copy, to be sure). I don't understand the preoccupation with having weather on your lock screen, for instance... Most of us aren't farmers. Is it really the most important thing to have up front? Let's hope Apple is thinking about the benefits before they just implement the easiest thing. If you put this on the home screen, that means customers will expect it there and it precludes you from putting something else, more useful there instead. Now I hope they do keep making slow and steady additions to the OS, and maybe there is something better they can do with the lock screen, but don't ask them to rush it if the Android idea is less than perfect. If we had gotten cut and paste right away then we may have been stuck with a lesser implementation (Android) that would have been with us even now. Most normal people aren't so into their gadgets that you can change system behaviors all the time. Apple's end goal, I believe, is to be the stable rock that makes sense. Their marketing stays the same for long periods of time; their OS looks similar for a long period of time; heck, even Jobs' outfit stayed the same for a long time... It's creating a mythos of dependability, and looking over a long period of time they appear more stable more sure of their footing. Not frantic, changing half-baked features like their competitors.
There are changes I could go for. Ones that really do seem inevitable. I'd love live icons; now that would be a real great improvement. Maybe the weather icon could just show the weather on it. I really don't care that much about the weather. It's sunny out the window and it's June. Safe to say it's warm and it's not far if I want to check it. There's a lot Apple can do to display more information to the user... Maybe they can have a different display of the home screen when you turn your device horizontally. Maybe there's a smarter way for me to control brightness on my iPhone. That's really the only thing I need to return to settings for all the time right now. But I don't know if an icon on the lock screen is the answer. Maybe it is. Maybe it's not.
Same here. Android offers a few advantages because it's made by a company that does not also sell media and the fact that it's a minority (being the majority means being herded), but it just sucks overall. Apple is one of the few great companies that actually makes their products work well with each other and doesn't pump out thousands of different models.
Also, Android is slow and fragmented. It's not a carefully-made platform.
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Apple is going a bit slow, and they're doing it on purpose. Remember how the iPhones 1&2 could not take video? Um, my Motorola Razr (not the Droid one, the flip phone) could do that easily. The one flaw in iOS is that Apple likes to roll out some of these things slowly so they can always have fuel for attention.
It makes money, but it's a bit annoying for us. Fortunately, they seem to have already released everything I could need. A user agent faker in Safari in dev mode would be nice, and I already have one installed from Cydia.
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That geofencing sounds a bit creepy. Good to know Apple are adding features for the stalker inclined though. Or I suppose it could be useful if you are having an affair as it could tell you when the wife left work 
Legit complaints but I just wanted to chime in that I actually prefer that I Apple waited to release cut and paste. Why? Because every variation on mobile devices for it sucked. And guess what, not to blame Google or anything, but they took twice as long to implement a similar variation to Apple's in Gingerbread. And even then, the variation itself was made within the jailbreak community and released early on in iOS 2.0, so Apple in fact copied and refined that.
As a consumer we win either way obviously but just trying to say that good things take time to make, but I do agree that there are still VERY simple yet elegant things already released within the jailbreak community especially that Apple should at least take cues from. Jailbreaking is the only thing imo that adds value to the ecosystem and if Apple were to just integrate it all in an Apple-esque way I swear the userbase would double in a heartbeat. And from that, the jailbreak community will still evolve because they'll have to think outside the box when they come up with new things which yet again Apple will still repackage...either way as a consumer I'd still prefer Apple's way of doing things...when they actually do them.
Call me easy to please, but one change I'd really like to see in iOS6 is the ability to set due dates in Reminders.
If I have something due, I don't want to be reminded when its due, I want to be reminded in advance of its being due, so that I then have time to do it. It was a big omission from 5.0, and really thought it would be fixed in 5.1.
The weird thing is that you can spoof it through some convoluted method involving setting an alert in iCal, which then does force Reminders to display both a reminder date and a due date. So the functionality is in there somewhere.
Basically there are a load of inconsistencies the way everything works in iCal, Calendar and Reminders.
There's an excellent thread on the Apple forums explaining exactly what is wrong:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16411799#16411799
Would really love it if they can sort all of this out.
If I have something due, I don't want to be reminded when its due, I want to be reminded in advance of its being due, so that I then have time to do it. It was a big omission from 5.0, and really thought it would be fixed in 5.1.
The weird thing is that you can spoof it through some convoluted method involving setting an alert in iCal, which then does force Reminders to display both a reminder date and a due date. So the functionality is in there somewhere.
Basically there are a load of inconsistencies the way everything works in iCal, Calendar and Reminders.
There's an excellent thread on the Apple forums explaining exactly what is wrong:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16411799#16411799
Would really love it if they can sort all of this out.
How has no one mentioned Bluetooth MAP Support
This is great for everybody who has purchased new cars in the last year that allow text message via voice and such. Probably not that big of a deal with Siri available, but still pretty sweet for people with a iPhone 4.
This is great for everybody who has purchased new cars in the last year that allow text message via voice and such. Probably not that big of a deal with Siri available, but still pretty sweet for people with a iPhone 4.
I actually just upgraded and I agree. However, after seeing all the threads about the possibility of an ATV SDK, prior to WWDC, the look now sort of makes sense. Especially when you scroll down and see all the individual buttons for MLB, YouTube,etc resemble Apps in iOS. Looks like they are warming people up to that view or starting to refine it for that direction.
I can't find anything about shadows - I even did a Find on Page. We're not talking about the reflections on the volume slider are we?
I love my iPhone, but it's really frustrating that I can't modify the things that I want without the need to jailbreak.
Messages App:
Messages App:
- can't send voice memo directly
- can't switch to list mode
- can't switch to box mode (layout, same as above)
- photos/voice memos do NOT compress before sending (RIM does a GREAT job at this)
- ****** timestamps
- No unified messages box like RIM; why the hell do I have to go to five different apps to see everything? grrr.
I've been using ios6 for almost a week now, and I have to say that it's a solid update and I love the new UI changes. Still has a few things I could see added.
I wonder if they will add last minute stuff to the iPhone 5 like they did with the 4S?
I wonder if they will add last minute stuff to the iPhone 5 like they did with the 4S?
Yes, User Accounts, which is kind of what you have been asking for have been wanted my many since the launch of the 1st iPad, but Apple are not going to do it.
They want you to buy an iPad for every member of your family, not buy just one and share it.
Again, this shows it's not like a proper computer we have at home where we have accounts and privacy, it's more like an iPod or iPhone where it's just your one personal device, no-one else is supposed to use.
A buddy just jailbroken his iPhone 4 on iOS 6 and got Siri working. I can't wait to get the new Maps.
Global Network Proxy
Does anybody know if the Global Network Proxy for HTTP is something that can be locked on enterprise devices to prevent people changing the proxy on different networks and cellular etc?
Does anybody know if the Global Network Proxy for HTTP is something that can be locked on enterprise devices to prevent people changing the proxy on different networks and cellular etc?