How dare you want to change the OS according to your needs and user experience! Those are irrational expectations!
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iOS6 is probably the most underwhelming release of iOS to date
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iOS6 was lackluster for you, we get it. Creating a poll and telling people your opinions on why it was underwhelming are not going to change other people's impressions.
So many people don't understand the significance of these new "modules" for Siri as well as the new Maps application and how it relates to future growth of Google search/advertising on mobile.
BooHoo iOS 6 didn't have everything YOU wanted. So everyone should be disappointed with you. I'm sorry but i'm not in the same boat as you.
What a silly and useless post.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.
Calidude isn't saying "he can do better", he is saying that for a company that touts its own innovation, iOS 6 was a serious letdown.
I don't care what side of the fence you are on...personally, I have owned iOS devices since the inception of the original iPhone and currently use Android as well. There is just so much more you can do with an Android device...I really thought and was truly hoping that iOS 6 would offer the same functionality that my HTC One X does, but the fact is, it doesn't.
This was a disappointing day for Apple and I think it shows how much we are going to miss Steve Jobs as time goes on. Just my opinion.
Not a disappointment since I want all these new features, but it is a bit lack luster.
Pretty much a "we copied Android to the fullest and fixed our horribly slow store apps" update. Not a bad thing by any means but not the wow factor update we all thought.
Android does it:
-Turn by turn
-Better maps and 3D view
-Send text to ignored call
-Notification timeout
-Facebook sharing / integration (also a WP7 thing)
-Cloud Browser Tabs (provided you can use Chrome on your Android phone..)
-Priority Inbox (gmail).. Ok ok, VIP, whatever..
-I want to say Video calls over 3G but they really don't have an integrated solution like FaceTime so this is kind of nice.
There are some things that aren't a direct copy from other mobile OS's and I do prefer the way Apple implements things.
The only real new things that stood out to me were the accessibility mode for Autism, which I see being used more for public point of sale systems or places that want to use iPads as information kiosks, and the push to more iCloud stuff like shared photo streams.
Siri is great and all and the changes are nice but it could do most of those things 2 years ago before Apple bought and integrated them so yeah...
Regardless of the similarities I'm extremely glad the iPhone is getting these updates. I don't believe this is the end of the story and we will see something new in the fall at the very least. It's not like the update is bad it's just lacking anything truly exciting like I've seen from the speculation on the forums over the past month.
Pretty much a "we copied Android to the fullest and fixed our horribly slow store apps" update. Not a bad thing by any means but not the wow factor update we all thought.
Android does it:
-Turn by turn
-Better maps and 3D view
-Send text to ignored call
-Notification timeout
-Facebook sharing / integration (also a WP7 thing)
-Cloud Browser Tabs (provided you can use Chrome on your Android phone..)
-Priority Inbox (gmail).. Ok ok, VIP, whatever..
-I want to say Video calls over 3G but they really don't have an integrated solution like FaceTime so this is kind of nice.
There are some things that aren't a direct copy from other mobile OS's and I do prefer the way Apple implements things.
The only real new things that stood out to me were the accessibility mode for Autism, which I see being used more for public point of sale systems or places that want to use iPads as information kiosks, and the push to more iCloud stuff like shared photo streams.
Siri is great and all and the changes are nice but it could do most of those things 2 years ago before Apple bought and integrated them so yeah...
Regardless of the similarities I'm extremely glad the iPhone is getting these updates. I don't believe this is the end of the story and we will see something new in the fall at the very least. It's not like the update is bad it's just lacking anything truly exciting like I've seen from the speculation on the forums over the past month.
It's OK to admit apple completely messed this one up. This iOS is the biggest snooze since Apple claimed the compass was a great new feature (which no one on planet earth cared about)
That being said, iOS 7 should be pretty good since this was disappointing for everyone admit it or not.
Well I guess people with iPhone 4 won't be getting Siri or Turn by Turn navigation then. Sucks for them.
+1 to this. Not really a lot going on outside of maps, which is hardly a feature that makes or breaks regardless of how good it is.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's policy is now to slow iOS development even more since Jobs isn't around to push them anymore.
I wonder if he would have been ok with this iOS6 cloud update. The man at least had SOME standards and wanted to wow people, and there was nothing to wow about today, unless people aren't aware that Android could already do turn-by-turn and "flyover" natively
really the only nice feature I find is Passport (yes I know its just an aggregate app like News Stand).
Siri is still a Gimmick (it is more useful but a gimmick).
Maps is really a main feature, its been there since iOS 1, they just put in turn by turn and took out google.
Facebook I could care less about
Shared photo streams is ok (I don't know why this is an iOS update)
FaceTime over 3g? great but not what i would call earth shattering
phone features again ok
Mail, safari are just updates to an app, not much
and how many users are going to care about guided access?
why does apple play catch up? i bought into this ecosystem because of innovation...not to get what everyone else had two years ago. Apple needs to introduce New non gimmick features, at the very least emulate what other OS' have.
Siri is still a Gimmick (it is more useful but a gimmick).
Maps is really a main feature, its been there since iOS 1, they just put in turn by turn and took out google.
Facebook I could care less about
Shared photo streams is ok (I don't know why this is an iOS update)
FaceTime over 3g? great but not what i would call earth shattering
phone features again ok
Mail, safari are just updates to an app, not much
and how many users are going to care about guided access?
why does apple play catch up? i bought into this ecosystem because of innovation...not to get what everyone else had two years ago. Apple needs to introduce New non gimmick features, at the very least emulate what other OS' have.
Most people here won't admit this, but Maps was the only major feature to warrant a "big" feature spot, and the rest of the "big" features were things you'd expect in a 6.1 or 6.2 update.
Siri now tells you sports scores? That's an OS feature? Nope. That's a cloud feature.
Kinda sad.
Asking the "WWJD" question (what would Jobs do) is the absolute worst thing you can think of. Please, please don't start that.
iOS 6 goes along with what Apple have been doing since iOS came out. steady improvements that build on an already solid core. this doesn't surprise me in the least and the features sound great for the update. Anyone who expects or expected anything that was mind blowing or vastly different visually was hyping themselves up for no good reason.
No GESTURES for iphone!
Ill buy the next iPhone bur I admit innovation is now on the Google side. Ice Cream Sandwich had some really cool stuff like gestures, people app, super awesome youtube app, better multitasking, better maps and gmail, etc.
I dint mind admitting that, but Ill stick with Apple because I prefer their ecosystem and dont like touchwiz and sense and fragmentation.
Ill buy the next iPhone bur I admit innovation is now on the Google side. Ice Cream Sandwich had some really cool stuff like gestures, people app, super awesome youtube app, better multitasking, better maps and gmail, etc.
I dint mind admitting that, but Ill stick with Apple because I prefer their ecosystem and dont like touchwiz and sense and fragmentation.
I liked it. It wasn't earth shattering but nice. When I switched back to iOS because I was sick and tired of my Android phone (first Samsung Galaxy S), I have to admit that I missed some things. Most of them, I got through iOS5, and more are coming to iOS6. I also like the whole iCloud integration between iOS and OSX machines. Again nothing revolutionary, but simply more useful features built on top of a good stable and well looking OS.
A few of my friends are using iPads now and we have fun using the FaceTime and iMessage features. I think this is what it is all about. An easy OS with lots of features (that may have existed for ages) but are easy to use and find, and are therefor also used by non-techies.
A few of my friends are using iPads now and we have fun using the FaceTime and iMessage features. I think this is what it is all about. An easy OS with lots of features (that may have existed for ages) but are easy to use and find, and are therefor also used by non-techies.
Yeah, it makes more sense on the iPhone than any other device because of the lack of room.
I don't think it was underwhelming, i just think instead of calling it iOS 6 it should have been iOS 5.5, theres nothing really spectacular outside the maps that makes this deserving of a whole new IOS.