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Was iOS 6 A Flop?
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It wouldn't make any sense for Google to halt progress on their os while everyone upgrades to the latest version... You're not making much sense.
It wouldn't make any sense for Google to halt progress on their os while everyone upgrades to it.. You're not making much sense.
Oh, I'm making perfect sense. To show something that most Android phone owners won't get for a year or more is ridiculous.
I wish updates were rolled out faster too, but it'd be a bad idea not to announce the next version of Android at Google I/o.
I've got a buddy who's got a developers copy and is downloading as I type. I'll know more soon, but Im very satisfied at what was presented today.
I would've been happy if they just gave us a date on the swipe down screen, but they gave us more than that.
I'm not sure if it's a flop but I was personally disappointed with it. Hopefully more features are announced with the next iPhone.
I like the update. It's exactly what iOS needed. I have a ipad 2 and a galaxy s2.
I like my ipad 2 and I love my GS2. Waiting on this new iphone to come out. But I liked what I saw from apple as far as iOS. There could have been more features... but its Apple. So get use to it.
I like my ipad 2 and I love my GS2. Waiting on this new iphone to come out. But I liked what I saw from apple as far as iOS. There could have been more features... but its Apple. So get use to it.
Some things they added I like and can use. Some things I do wish they added.
Overall it was just ok.
Overall it was just ok.
It's apparently taken six versions of iOS for me to force myself to come to grip with the reality: the iPhone will never be innovative. It will steal things from other mobile OSs that customers have shown interest in and make them spectacular for use on the iPhone, but 'thinking-outside-the-box' isn't even in play anymore.
Is a massive failure on the biggest scale. Looks more like iOS5.5. Still has a home screen that looks like the app drawer was left open ? Lame. That was cool 5yrs ago maybe.
No Widgets, same icons from 2007,
Bring in the Nexus-Four
No Widgets, same icons from 2007,
Bring in the Nexus-Four
It's funny because a few years ago anybody who DIDN'T call Apple innovative was flogged and called out for trolling. But now a lot of Apples biggest supporters are starting to get frustrated at these incremental .x updates while we can clearly see huge leaps in "innovation" happening in the competing OSs.
I'll probably never stop buying Apple products, but I definitely do wish they'd be trend setters again because I'm tired of hearing applause for features that already exist somewhere else.
Guess you're right. That way everyone can start saving up for the new phone they'll need to run it.
You must have bought a low end Android phone when you had one, otherwise you'd know that the flagships always see at least one update.
People are too greedy for new features. I think iOS6 will be a great new operating system. Here in the US, we enjoy most of Apple's new features right away, but bringing features like Siri to the rest of the world so they can enjoy it too is a major undertaking and one that should not be overlooked.
This year for Apple's devices I think the big focus is around the devices themselves instead of software updates. I mean come on this is the year of a new iPhone. iOS 6 has great new additions that will continue to make the iPhone and the iPad the top selling phone and tablet.
People are just being over critical of Apple. They also do not appreciate the hardwork that was done with their software and devices. Apple do not release flopped features. When they add a feature they will make sure that it meets their standards. They say that Siri is still in beta but it blows the competitor's version out of the water:
Have faith in Apple
People are just being over critical of Apple. They also do not appreciate the hardwork that was done with their software and devices. Apple do not release flopped features. When they add a feature they will make sure that it meets their standards. They say that Siri is still in beta but it blows the competitor's version out of the water:
Have faith in Apple
They weren't low end at the time. When I bought the Incredible it was THE flagship phone for both HTC and Verizon. The Razr was as well. I refused to buy the Galaxy Nexus because it's a Samsung.
So at least you have been pinned down as saying that you really need to get one of the flagship phones to get decent support into the future.
I'll be sure to refer to your post in the future when it's necessary.
Thanks for the help!
The Incredible was never THE flagship phone for Verizon (I owned one and loved it, but it was not promoted very hard nor was it very popular). It also ran Sense not vanilla Android, so I knew that it was going to be hard to get updates when I bought it, but I liked Sense so I did it anyway. Also, doesn't the Razr run blur instead of vanilla Android? I haven't been in the android scene in a while so I wouldn't know.
Back on topic,iOS 6 should have been maybe a 5.5 update. The new MacBook pro's looked awesome, mountain lion was pretty cool but the iOS 6 portion was pretty lackluster.
Here come the higher data usage charges for things like Maps with directions and FT over 3G/4G/LTE,
Can not wait to see what the new billing layout will be like for the Big Three vendors, as Sprint longterm can not afford to support unlimited data.
Can not wait to see what the new billing layout will be like for the Big Three vendors, as Sprint longterm can not afford to support unlimited data.
It was the first Droid to be on the "Droid Does" site and was the best Android phone that Verizon had at the time. It had commercials all over the place.
A phone doesn't have to be a Nexus to be a flagship phone for a carrier. After from the original Droid, Verizon didn't have another vanilla android phone until the Galaxy Nexus.
Since the Nexus line is the only phones that run vanilla Android (without rooting) are you saying that the only way to be assured of getting quick updates is to own a Nexus?
Samsung (non-Nexus) runs Touchwiz, HTC runs Sense and Motorola runs Blur. Since those are the main cell phone manufacturers in the U.S., it sounds like all will be slow to receive updates based on your post.
Wow iOS6 announcement was a HUGE Disappointment
Their biggest feature is an updated map/navigation? Everything else was pretty much tweaks to existing stuff. That was a pretty lame update IMO. Hardly innovative. Jobs absence is starting to show.
Their biggest feature is an updated map/navigation? Everything else was pretty much tweaks to existing stuff. That was a pretty lame update IMO. Hardly innovative. Jobs absence is starting to show.