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Roundup of iOS 6 Launch Day News and Reviews
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Won't a Map app get rejected because it's duplicating an existing functionality?
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I know it's new. I know it will get better. Enter but. But, the way it was hyped is not matched by reality. I'm not impressed with maps (right now), it's better than original maps, but not better than google maps. I like the flyover, but I'd rather see a flyover with real pictures than 3d renders.
Siri is just ok (iPad), novel, but I hope it gets better.
I'm just not thrilled with the update as it doesn't match the excitement I had prior to installing it. I do love it. I do know it's just a start, but I think it could have been better and some features left off the iPad should not have been. However, I also know I'm not an Apple programmer and have no idea the challenges they had in doing this, nor do I know their roadmap, marketing or functional. So I'm still reserving the total "poo poo" to be fair.
I know it's new. I know it will get better. Enter but. But, the way it was hyped is not matched by reality. I'm not impressed with maps (right now), it's better than original maps, but not better than google maps. I like the flyover, but I'd rather see a flyover with real pictures than 3d renders.
Siri is just ok (iPad), novel, but I hope it gets better.
I'm just not thrilled with the update as it doesn't match the excitement I had prior to installing it. I do love it. I do know it's just a start, but I think it could have been better and some features left off the iPad should not have been. However, I also know I'm not an Apple programmer and have no idea the challenges they had in doing this, nor do I know their roadmap, marketing or functional. So I'm still reserving the total "poo poo" to be fair.
Anyone else having proximity sensor issues? After upgrade, I had my iPhone in my shirt pocket. It started getting very hot, I pulled it out, my iPhone had been recording video for quite some time. The battery had run down from 100% down to 50%. The phone had not done a thermal shutdown, however, it must have been close.
After letting it cool down, the battery came back to 75%.
After letting it cool down, the battery came back to 75%.
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Its shiny in every respect.
Can i touch it?
Seems Siri's getting smarter...... Soon it will be able to order a pizza for you too
Your telling people to resist shiny new hardware? Good luck with that.
Its shiny in every respect.
Can i touch it?
Seems Siri's getting smarter...... Soon it will be able to order a pizza for you too
Its shiny in every respect.
Can i touch it?
Seems Siri's getting smarter...... Soon it will be able to order a pizza for you too
The most important function, "Find my car keys.", does not work. I was surprised to find out, "What is my password?" works perfectly. This might be something of a security issue.
It was never going to match reality, not after we learned that Apple decided to just license TomTom data instead of doing the massive, massive work of mapping their own cartographic data as Google had done. TomTom's data is, as we see, not up to the task. Hell, it's barely up to the task for major cities.
What's amazing to me is that Jobs didn't assemble a stealth mapping team right after Android was announced and he went thermonuclear. Instead, I guess he just thought he could buy his way to success. Not typically his style. Maybe he had lots of defeatist engineers telling him it would take too long to start from scratch. But hell, whatever they would've come up with would still be better than the junk TomTom has.
When Apple first announced their own Maps, I thought, there's no way they will try to compete with Google Maps unless they've developed a solution that is at least twice as good, let alone just showing a me-too solution. So to see what is finally here is truly shocking. Truly. I'm not sure I've ever seen Apple fail this badly at a piece of software.
No, Apple has let certain apps in that do duplicate existing functionality. But google maps adds more as well.
I use it on a daily basis. Don't you? Don't everybody?
Maybe you don't need a map where you live, if it's a small town and you never need to go outside, but over here it's a necessity.
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We can only hope so. I don't even care about added functionality. Just give me accurate maps with basic search and navigation functionality, something that the Apple Maps app completely fails at.
Besides the amazing maps app; there really isn't any spark to this iOS update. Hopefully they make a feature like street view.
your friend "Melany" is spelling her name wrong, tell her to fix it. and smack her parents for not giving her a normal name.
I love the new maps app. *crickets*. Rome wasn't built in a day. It will get better.
Google maps is FAR FAR from perfect, even after many years of updates. I can't tell you how many times that app has pissed me off in the past six years. It's more problematic than any other major app I have to deal with on a consistent basis.
Google maps is FAR FAR from perfect, even after many years of updates. I can't tell you how many times that app has pissed me off in the past six years. It's more problematic than any other major app I have to deal with on a consistent basis.
That unfortunately is very much the purpose of iOS6. It disables useful functionality and tries to get you to upgrade to another expensive version of basically the same phone,
There is a difference between being far from perfect and being totally unusable. Apple Maps belong to the second category.
Things I have tried so far.
Phone - DND and Reply with message are nice features they have added but it seems crazy that at this stage of its development that you still cant have a blocked numbers list in iOS. Nuisance calls are a real hassle for many people but its still not possible to simply block a number from calling you in iOS.
Dial *67 before dialing out and your number should be blocked. Works from home and cell phones.
Reduced functionality
I guess what pisses me off the most is that i bought an iPad with a certain functionality and that the latest 'upgrade' has removed some of it.
If Apple adds to the outputs I don't have an issue - but after i buy the product, i should be given the CHOICE to keep each and every app or function I originally purchased - or not - on an individual app basis. Surely this is a case for trading standards and consumer protection organisations to raise with Apple.
I want to use the old You Tube app and the Google Maps app not the beta replacements in iOS6
I guess what pisses me off the most is that i bought an iPad with a certain functionality and that the latest 'upgrade' has removed some of it.
If Apple adds to the outputs I don't have an issue - but after i buy the product, i should be given the CHOICE to keep each and every app or function I originally purchased - or not - on an individual app basis. Surely this is a case for trading standards and consumer protection organisations to raise with Apple.
I want to use the old You Tube app and the Google Maps app not the beta replacements in iOS6
Yeah; well, it's not "horrible" but it's a work in progress here.
I live in Taiwan and Google Maps translates everything to English underneath the Chinese name but Apple Maps app doesn't do that yet (if ever?).
No 3D just yet but I don't know if that's a big deal. I'll use my computer for street view until Google releases a maps app for iOS. I wouldn't be shocked if Apple is doing its own street view service though right now.
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and for me iOS6 Maps is actually quite a bit more up to date than googles. It really depends on where you live, but people forget that googles been building theirs over a decade while piggy backing on a multitude of other companies data. I know it may be a rough transition for some or most but it will get there.