Roundup of iOS 6 Launch Day News and Reviews

[Temuco]

Maps can't give bus routes

For all of you folks in the US this may not be important but try reading Chinese when you want to go somewhere. Then try figuring out bus routes in China! Impossible!!!

With Google Maps I could set my destination and get the bus number of the correct bus to take, where the bus stop is located and how far I have to walk to and from the bus stops. I could do this in most major cities in China which is quite a few!

This most essential feature is missing in Apple's new iMap. Until they can add it I've got to go back to Google Maps. The iMap map detail is fantastic. It just doesn't have the functionality I need here in China.

Please fix this quick Apple!

 

[riyami4ever]

"faces" and "events" in photos app

Looks like apple were going to introduce faces and events to the photos app in iOS 6, but i guess that we will only see it in iOS 7.

This is a screen shot from WWDC 2012, when apple were introducing iOS 6.

 

[petitpiton]

Google Website still claims their Maps (and YouTube) are preinstalled on iPhone

http://www.google.com/mobile/iphone/
Maybe, like me, they're in denial

 

[Lukeyy19]

Updated my iPad 3 thinking "i guess i don't need Street View on there as i can use it on my mac while at home if i really need to" but my god, when i thought i was giving up street view, i didn't know i was giving up all satellite imagery of everywhere within about 100 miles of me. Maps is terrible.

Apple Maps:

Google Earth:

Lets zoom in a little shall we and see if the Apple Maps imagery improves...

Apple Maps:

Google Earth:

And don't think i've chosen some silly little place that nobody cares about. This is the imagery for the town of Colchester in England, home to well over 100,000 people, and one of, if not the oldest recorded town in Britain.

This is ridiculous, why have they released this garbage?

Glad i can use Google Earth for satellite imagery, i just hope Google release a fully fledged maps app soon, so i'm not stuck with this awful Apple app when I get my iPhone 5

 

[Fishticks]

Simply not the best anymore

APPLE IS SIMPLY NOT THE BEST ANYMORE

• Small screen
• Poor Maps
• Poor voice recognition (Siri)
• Poor cloud services and integration (mail, calendar, contacts, documents: all far better elsewhere)
• No SD card reader
• Only 64 GB memory at max (elsewhere you can have 64GB internal + 64 GB MicroSDXC = 128 GB and you can even add 50 GB free for 2 years on Dropbox = 178 GB...)
• Many carrier locked functions that are freely available on other smartphones (VOIP, USB router etc)
• No wireless charging
• No universal USB connector
• No USB3 nor Thunderbolt (sadlol)
• New connector making you change all your periphericals just for no reason (who will use the ugly adaptor, certainly not me!)
• Need to jailbreak and generally to wait for a jailbreak to be available to have SBSettings available as well as other key features...

So many cons now, and I don't see obvious pros.
IPhone 5 is the first iPhone that is not the best smartphone on the market at its release, and iOS 6 the first iOS to be inferior to previous iOSes (Maps) and hence to other OSes.

They're acting just like M$oft trying to rip as much money out of us as they can, but they forget that they can do it only if they have the best product.
They used to. They don't anymore.
They can still make believe (which they think is most important). It can't last much.
Do-better-or-die, I won't be scared to change for the best competitor on the market.

PS: btw, I've had computers for 25 years (from Amstrad, Atari, to self assembled PCs), 3 macbooks pros, 2 imacs, PDAs, Windows CE 3 4 and 5 smartphones, iPhones 3G to 4S...
So don't feed me your troll/fanboy tralala

 

[fatboyslick]

It may just be me, but with iOS6 it seems that pressing the home button when the screen is locked and "off", the screen now lights up with a fade.

Previously it was instantaneously bright, but now there seems to be a very fast brightening.

Anyone else noticed it?



Also on the new apps, in Satellite view it shows planes....what's that all about???

 

[Stotka]

Apple maps is utterly useless now. I live in Belgrade(capitol of Serbia) And there are only 2 highways shown that go through it. Only have fuzzy images of the city and streets. No names no nothing. This is the worst move for apple for non US citizens.

 

[mofish]

I can't get over how bad these maps are!! After looking my blurry home-town, I ventured out accross some other parts of the UK in hope for some clear imagary. I find myself cloud dodging or looking at a complete blurry mess! We need Google to bring out Maps app!

 

[cbeat1]

As a musician who writes music even on iPhone, I am excited for iPhone5. (I'm upgrading from 3G!) I also love Google. I've written on Apple hardware from the beginning. The years ago of 'having' to switch to PC, because we thought Apple was gone, were very painful. People call me a 'fanboy', but what Apple has allowed me to do so effortlessly in music is AMAZING. Other than music, I don't do more than most. Other than 'maps.' Like most. Even with Apple's solid OS, I am starting to really 'hear' the critics lately. I WOULD never switch, as it is my bread and butter, and VERY SOLID. But I agree with what I am hearing about maps. Poignant today, because my Garmin Nuvi 500 bit the dust a few days ago. I travel a lot. The 'walking' feature on the Garmin was used ALWAYS. So I thought, "Oh well, iPhone5 will be a fine replacement." Like anyone, just "ONE device is perfect." Would Google and Apple just get over the PISSING contest? I know I can use Google through Safari. But now, I am going to spend the extra 99.00 to refurb the Nuvi. Tsk, Google and Apple. I have been defending Apple against critics saying they have lately been playing catchup. "They are still not as a solid an OS as Apple", I alway say. "How much more do you REALLY need with all the APPS available?" I retort. "The hardware releases are few and far between", they cry. I planned on replacing the iPod, Nuvi, and phone in ONE. Doing it the 'Apple' way of less to carry around. Well, Apple, PLEASE STEP UP AND DO THINGS RIGHT, AND FASTER. PLEASE? Stop being so 'safe'. You've GOT THE MONEY! Let's not 'slide' back into 'those' days. UGH. PLEASE. And I really think that this is Google's way of saying 'HA!' See the maps suck!" before they bring out the app we ALL want, and will pay for in the APP store. Touche' Google. Now they will ALSO reap some of their stock holdings back by selling apps. GET OVER IT. Both companies have more money than God, and have us by the balls.

 

[fatboyslick]

Not convinved by the Maps at all - 3D isn't 3D and the "buildings" button appears sporadically and adds nothing to the experience. Turn by turn is a farce - it's exactly what Google Maps offered but with blury images and a really difficult way to skip to the next direction and zooming in

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is it possible to roll back to an earlier IOS?

 

[AforAndromeda]

Maps are rubbish in uk!

I love many aspects - even on my 3GS - but BE WARNED the satellite maps are fuzzy compared to before.

I hope the US is ok on maps but in the UK it's worse than previous.

I hope this changes.

 

[Dreamboy]

I decided to update my iPad 3 to iOS6 so I can get a look at Siri and the new maps.

As most of the people I've been surprised by this big change on the maps application. I can't simply understand how Apple has managed to release something like this. I'm sure that if Steve still was there, some one gets fired.

After the upgrade I played with the new maps. As most of all, the first I tryed is to find some city with FlyOver to look at it. I have to say is one the most amazing demostration of techlology I've ever seen. The detail is impressing, more than I expected.

After 5 minutes playing with it, looking at the air conditioning machines on the roof of a comercial center, I started using the maps app like for a normal user. The 2D maps are very poor compared to Google. Most of the places disapeared. There's no metro, train or bus stations. You are totally lost if you need to find something in a city with that!

I'm still wondering what this 3D button means in the Apple maps. I just press it and the map tilts. But everything is as 2D as before. Just a flat tilted map.

Today I compared a real use agains my Google maps still on my iPhone. I searched for a route in Barcelona with public transportation. Google maps calculates all the route, with times and bus numbers and stops. Where to walk to take the bus, and where to leave it. Realtime time information to take the bus and time of arrival. I can check on StreetView where the stations are, and how they look. On Apple maps I'm totally lost. I can only see the street names and I have no idea of how to move around the city. But hey... The roofs looks great on FlyOver!

Definitely I will never upgrade my iPhone to iOS6 or get an iPhone 5 if I can't have the GoogleMaps app with all the curent features.

 

[NedBookPro]

I need to get a 5....alot of this stuff doesn't work on my 4.

Just get a 4S...
Just about all the apps, but no extra row of icons.
I can live without that.

Hopefully I pick mine up tomorrow.
The whole iPhone 5 thing is a big disappointment.

Maybe 5S

.

 

[CplBadboy]

Overall a welcome upgrade but nothing really to sing and dance about. My main gripe is the horrendous maps. Oh dear Apple.

Thankfully I can add the Google Maps icon on my home screen from Safari and still use the best mapping solution. Hopefully we see a new app from Google soon. Im sorry but people are getting way to excited about this gimmick that is flyover. IMO this is a smokescreen for Apples inadequacies for providing POI on the actual map app, like close railway, bus links and nearby restaurants. Its very poor and unfortunately cant be deleted. God frbid that I actually choose what to have on MY home screen!

 

[petsounds]

Not convinved by the Maps at all - 3D isn't 3D and the "buildings" button appears sporadically and adds nothing to the experience.

The 3D is indeed 3D -- you can see the planar mesh (before the slow-loading satellite tiles appear) when viewing landscape that is not flat. Go look at a mountain range like Pike's Peak and change the camera positioning; you'll see it's definitely 3D cartography. And that's kinda cool. For about five minutes.

But the 3D is useless compared to Street View, since you can't zoom in far enough to read street signs. And have you tried rotating the 3D on an iPhone? It's a clunky mess on my 4s -- only responds to the awkward rotation gesture half the time, and when it does it's jittery.

 

[chr1s60]

APPLE IS SIMPLY NOT THE BEST ANYMORE

• Small screen
• Poor Maps
• Poor voice recognition (Siri)
• Poor cloud services and integration (mail, calendar, contacts, documents: all far better elsewhere)
• No SD card reader
• Only 64 GB memory at max (elsewhere you can have 64GB internal + 64 GB MicroSDXC = 128 GB and you can even add 50 GB free for 2 years on Dropbox = 178 GB...)
• Many carrier locked functions that are freely available on other smartphones (VOIP, USB router etc)
• No wireless charging
• No universal USB connector
• No USB3 nor Thunderbolt (sadlol)
• New connector making you change all your periphericals just for no reason (who will use the ugly adaptor, certainly not me!)
• Need to jailbreak and generally to wait for a jailbreak to be available to have SBSettings available as well as other key features...

Who knew that what made a phone the best was based off what YOU wanted in a phone. I always thought users picked what they wanted and that there could never truly be a "best phone."
Wireless charging has been and continues to be a failure. The technology is nowhere near ready for true widespread use.
SD cards are a huge matter of preference. I've used Android and Apple phones and don't miss my SD card slot at all. It was really just a sell point for people that think they need to have 10,000 pictures, songs, movies and apps on the phone. In other words people that bloat their phone with many things they rarely use.
Small screen makes no sense if you are saying this is the first phone that hasn't been the best by Apple, considering the screen is bigger than the last iPhone, which also didn't have the biggest screen on the market. I personally don't want a phone with a 5" or 6" screen on it. If I want something that big I can buy a 7" tablet. I prefer a phone for my pocket and not a carrying bag.
Your statement on jailbreak is funny as well considering that if you want to compare it to Android, 90% of the phones out there need rooted and to have a custom rom in order to even have the most recent Android OS.

If you don't like the phone, you are more than entitled to that opinion and if you haven't, I recommend trying another OS and phone to see how they compare. Phones on the Android OS are clearly trying to go with the "bigger is better" methods with their screens and some other features. You may call supporters fanboys, but to me your post sounds like someone that wanted Apple to copy another competitor in the field when it came to design and that is something I am glad Apple didn't do. For a perfect example of what that kind of thing looks like, check out Windows design changes since OS X really became popular.

 

[fatboyslick]

The problem the maps is that it is TomTom and anyone will tell you Tom Tom is one of the weakest sat navs on the UK market.

Google are waaaaay ahead of them but I can only think TomTom is a leader in the US still otherwise why would apple have chosen them.

Googles dedicated app cant come soon enough but I doubt Apple will react to these negative reports surfacing.

Im sure I read somewhere that outside of the US, the Apple Maps are already 2 years out of date compared to Google's?

 

[porky]

wtf, what happend to the app store Please give me back the old design

 

[AQUADock]

Updated my iPad 3 thinking "i guess i don't need Street View on there as i can use it on my mac while at home if i really need to" but my god, when i thought i was giving up street view, i didn't know i was giving up all satellite imagery of everywhere within about 100 miles of me. Maps is terrible.

Apple Maps:
Image


Google Earth:
Image

Lets zoom in a little shall we and see if the Apple Maps imagery improves...

Apple Maps:
Image

Google Earth:
Image

And don't think i've chosen some silly little place that nobody cares about. This is the imagery for the town of Colchester in England, home to well over 100,000 people, and one of, if not the oldest recorded town in Britain.

This is ridiculous, why have they released this garbage?

Glad i can use Google Earth for satellite imagery, i just hope Google release a fully fledged maps app soon, so i'm not stuck with this awful Apple app when I get my iPhone 5

And it's in black and white, could it get any better? lol

 

[Chundles]

Looks like apple were going to introduce faces and events to the photos app in iOS 6, but i guess that we will only see it in iOS 7.
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This is a screen shot from WWDC 2012, when apple were introducing iOS 6.

Faces and events have been there for ages. Just need to sync from iPhoto.

 

[AQUADock]

It may just be me, but with iOS6 it seems that pressing the home button when the screen is locked and "off", the screen now lights up with a fade.

Previously it was instantaneously bright, but now there seems to be a very fast brightening.

Anyone else noticed it?



Also on the new apps, in Satellite view it shows planes....what's that all about???

Apple changed the way auto-brightness works, you can now see when the brightness changes whereas before it would be very subtle and slow. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

 

[d0minick]

heres the thing about the new maps. It does what it is suppose to, maps.

BUT it doesn't do what every iphone user has been able to do for the past 5 years, it doesn't provide the same top notch quality as gmaps, yet.

For the love of honey, google release your maps.

 

[jwkay]

Maps

If you want Google Maps back (albeit without Street View), you can go to maps.google.com in iOS Safari, then add a nice shortcut to your homescreen. Have already done this, and it works pretty well. Ok, not a dedicated app (which I'm pretty sure Google will launch), but it beats Apple Maps!

I'm not far from Norway's second city, Bergen. On the plus side, the basic road data is more up-to-date than Google maps (street names etc), but:

- Satellite imagery is much older. 3 year old roads disappear & neighbours' house, too!
- Businesses - apparently none exist around me, whereas Google even has small two-man electrical firms. In a large town nearby, most of the businesses have disappeared, too.

Graphically it's nice, but the content is far too poor at present. I'm also not convinced Apple needs to offer its own version of everything. Let the mapping experts take care of this

 

[fatboyslick]

Are there any Google Map apps in the app store - not official ones but apps that use the maps technology that we can all use until the offical version?

Just had a gander (on the now awful redesigned store) and there may be some but worried they'll need the inbuilt maps app


UPDATE

HA - found LIVE STREET VIEW app which itself advertises as "Get Street View back in iOS6"

 

[SG457]

The world's most advanced mobile operating system frequently quits my twitter, maps, app store, facebook and safari (which isn't snappier) after updating And please, bring Google Maps to the App Store