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iOS6 is probably the most underwhelming release of iOS to date
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I actually remember seeing "keyboard shortcut to duplicate file" as one of 200 new features in Mountain Lion, and it was actually on the slide!
Also not really amazed by this. It feels more like iOS 5.5 and not iOS 6
iOS5 made people want to lose their jailbreak for a while, but this...this is just not a huge deal to anybody unless they want turn-by-turn.
Just as irrational expectations will do the opposite... you still haven't said if there was anything you wanted to see that didn't come up in this update... Is there anything?
With the way iOS is designed, I don't expect amazing revolutionary redesigns like I do in OSX, I just expect features added, and stability increases. This fits that. Adding more and more as people request.
Nothing irrational about things like quick reply to SMS, Calling Notification bars, etc. Things that people jailbreak for or go to Android for. That's what people really want.
This is not the final product. I'm sure there will be plenty of new features and changes made before the GM release in the fall. Apple always does that. I for one don't care much about the look of the OS as much as I care about all the new apps and functionality they announced today. That alone is pretty mind blowing!
Sorry those don't sound like earth shattering features to me... so I'm not disappointed by the lack of them. Should apple implement something like it? Maybe. But I can wait.
This is pretty much the final product with some revisions and fixes save for what comes with the hardware in iPhone 5. That's why its called a beta and not an Alpha.
Not to mention there may be a feature only available on the iPhone 5... Kinda like how Siri was only available on the iPhone 4S.
That's a clear exaggeration.
Prior to iOS 4:
-VOIP Apps (and calls) would stop if you closed the App
-Third party audio apps would stop if you closed the App
-You couldn't have a navigation App open in the background
-Apps had to reload their state from scratch when you switched between them
iOS Multitasking is nowhere near as complete as other platforms, but iOS 4 is lightyears ahead of iOS 3 in that regard.
Love the new Maps, Passport, and Shared Photo Stream.
Lukewarm on FaceTime over cellular (no voice only mode), Siri (no text entry mode), Phone (do not disturb is nice, but would love blocked number and reworked UI)
Disappointed by lack of major change on home page, notification center, no default app permission, and inability to share documents across apps. Hopefully, these features are coming and simply not demoed.
Lukewarm on FaceTime over cellular (no voice only mode), Siri (no text entry mode), Phone (do not disturb is nice, but would love blocked number and reworked UI)
Disappointed by lack of major change on home page, notification center, no default app permission, and inability to share documents across apps. Hopefully, these features are coming and simply not demoed.
iOS6 is a major disappointment. About the only positive of the 10 added items (discussed in the presentation) is maps and I feel like the majority of that is really fluff.
If you really had a need for navigation in the last 3 years you either purchased a car with it built in, a stand alone unit, used an android phone or bought a navigation app on the app store.
These are items that I felt needed to be added to iOS6:
1. live tiles for weather especially
2. quick access to settings
3. quickreply to SMS
4. intelligent homescreen that shows all notifications until you dismiss them
5. updated standard weather app (I mean Apple did make a ‘cards’ app)
6. full screen safari
7. updated camera app
I had pretty low expectations for iOS6 and I am still disappointed...
If you really had a need for navigation in the last 3 years you either purchased a car with it built in, a stand alone unit, used an android phone or bought a navigation app on the app store.
These are items that I felt needed to be added to iOS6:
1. live tiles for weather especially
2. quick access to settings
3. quickreply to SMS
4. intelligent homescreen that shows all notifications until you dismiss them
5. updated standard weather app (I mean Apple did make a ‘cards’ app)
6. full screen safari
7. updated camera app
I had pretty low expectations for iOS6 and I am still disappointed...
According to the Android fanboys I talked to on Twitter today, they've been doing everything in iOS 6 since forever.
You can get turn by turn when you update to iOS 6. Sorry but you won't be getting Siri with an iPhone 4.
And you know this for a fact?
All i'm saying is you haven't even seen all the other features that were not mentioned during the keynote, nor do you know for sure that all the features that you wanted are not there. PLUS whatever gets released in the fall tied to hardware. BUT i have a suspicion that since it looks like iPhone 5 will be a new beast, the iOS might also get heavier changes as we get closer.
I was just trying to tell that people don't have irrational expectations about iOS. They just want it to function more like their laptop, yet Apple moves toward that at a painfully slow pace. Things that existed in Symbian still don't exist in iOS, for christsake.
Another big issue is that the interface doesn't really change, and any things that have been tacked on like the Notification center come from Android.
Coming from a company that claims to be big on design, you'd think iOS would have an interface that nobody would want to move from, yet people jailbreak to add things or go to Android to escape iOS.
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As posted on Apple.com, "Turn by Turn Navigation" will only available on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 "or later".
That is all scheduled for iOS10 or maybe iOS11, if you haven't already moved to another OS by then.
Oh my God. Really? This is getting old with the constant complaining and nit-picking. You do better. Come on, Calidude. Get off your butt and make something better. You redesign the entire iOS in your glorious vision of what it should be, and then present it to us. Show us how brilliant you are and back up all of your criticism. Then each year in June roll out a completely revamped and superior OS that dwarfs your already staggering and cutting-edge triumph of human ingenuity.
Or, keep criticizing everything on the internet. Feverishly typing away, your freshly lubricated potato chip greased fingers can rain down insults and criticism on invisible corporate giants who didn't quite meet your highest expectations.
I wonder which one of these options you'll choose.