Would love to see turn-by-turn on the iPad2+ used as a big-ass car sat-nav.![]()
Turn by turn is working for me on my iPhone 4. Maybe they'll take it out later...
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To make clear to everyone. Turn-by-Turn does work with the iphone 4, but it doesn't give you a above view.
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Those with a 2 year old phone complaining about not getting every single new feature need to realize their contribution to Apple was over 2 years ago.
Turn by turn is working for me on my iPhone 4. Maybe they'll take it out later...
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To make clear to everyone. Turn-by-Turn does work with the iphone 4, but it doesn't give you a above view.
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Apple is a hardware company. They view software as a means to drive sales of their devices. Not sure why this is hard for people to understand. Those with a 2 year old phone complaining about not getting every single new feature need to realize their contribution to Apple was over 2 years ago.
I know quite a few people who didn't get the iphone 4 until after Verizon started selling it. So try 16 months or less old for a few million customers...Oh yeah I forgot, those people are idiots for buying old hardware...
And what would Apple charge for said update? $20? Apple is making a much larger profit selling you a new phone. It's business. Deal with it. You can be an Apple customer or not. But it isn't like other companies don't do the same. That is why they drag their feet to give Android phones updates... or not give updates period. They want to sell you a new phone.
This is the hardware business.
Microsoft is in the software business. That is why a new version of Windows costs $300 and not $20 like Mountain Lion. The hardware is subsidizing the development of the software. It is the very reason Apple hates Hackintoshing.
And yet, MS is still supporting XP, and you can still install Windows 7 on really old computers, and you will be able to install Windows 8 on really old computers. Arbitrarily "obsoleting" a two year old device is pretty much downright dirty. Defending Apple because they "want money" is weird.
Look at it this way.
Microsoft is a software company (meaning they make money from software). It makes sense that Microsoft wants to be able to sell windows (at a very high cost) to as many people as possible for as long as possible. In fact, I'm sure microsoft makes twice as much money (or more) from selling an upgrade than from a person buying a new computer.
Apple is a hardware company (meaning they make money from hardware). They sell you their software upgrades at a very inexpensive cost (see: FREE and $20). They NEED to phase out old hardware support because if everybody kept their Mac's for 10 years Apple wouldn't make much money.
There is nothing particularly dirty about Apple's tactics. The iPad 1's will continue to work fine for many, many years. They just won't be receiving FREE updates. I think we can expect to see Mac's fully supported for 6 years and iPad's fully supported for ~3 years (yes iPad 1 will only end up supported for 2.5 years, but I believe from iPad 2 forward the support will last for 3.5 years. This is because Apple has moved to the "last year at $100 cheaper" model). Honestly I think that's a pretty reasonable timeframe to keep those devices. Mobile devices just have faster upgrade cycles. By the time the iPad 4 comes out, any heavy iPad 1 users would probably be looking to upgrade anyway (if they hadn't already).
Uhh...if MS makes money selling software it would make sense for them to drop support much sooner thereby forcing license upgrades, or new computer purchases. Saying they make money on software so it behooves them to support software for a long long time makes absolutely no sense.
I'd like to hear a logical defense for what the thread title is talking about here.
That's why microsoft works hard to make their software capable of running of a wide range of hardware. Regarding software support for old software, I think that's mainly because Microsoft needs to because there are millions of people still running it. It would be a PR nightmare (especially with all the businesses running XP). But Apple has no reason to support 8 year old OS's because there are maybe only a few thousand people running it.you can still install Windows 7 on really old computers, and you will be able to install Windows 8 on really old computers.
I figured that would have happened. A4 processor wasn't good enough for that kind of stuff....
Turn by turn is working for me on my iPhone 4. Maybe they'll take it out later...
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To make clear to everyone. Turn-by-Turn does work with the iphone 4, but it doesn't give you a above view.
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Every android phone even the crappiest ones have turn by turn and voice navigation.
I can understand the need for a multi-core CPU to handle this stuff...
Hence the 4S and iPad 3.
But... the iPad 2 has the same exact hardware as the 4S [A5 CPU] (in fact, the iPad 2's hardware is clocked HIGHER than the 4S's....)
Why can't the iPad 2 run SIRI? This one needs some serious explaining...
Do the 4S and New iPad have SIRI-exclusive hardware in it or something?
What gives other than bullying-out the iPad 2?
Makes no sense.