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WWDC Banner Confirms iOS 6 Announcement

I wonder if this means we can expect an imminent iOS 6 release, say within 1 week of the announcement? With such prevalent advertising of it, I'd say yes. Good news if so! I bet it will be amazing considering Mountain Lion releasing soon and the convergence of OS X and iOS being underway already. I could definitely use more integration between the two. :)
 
Rogifan said:
There are things that Android does better. Doesn't mean it's a better mobile OS overall. But I hope Apple has more in store for us than Facebook integration and re-designed store apps. That would be pretty underwhelming.
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Now you better prepare for major disappointment. This WWDC will be a glimpse at iOS 6 with some new API showcasing - and then - low and behold - a MountainLion and Mac-centric WWDC.

Rogifan said:
Is battery life the reason Apple doesn't have widgets? Before my iPhone I had an HTC with Froyo and the battery life was absolute crap. When I took it to AT&T they basically told me to remove all my widgets to save my battery life. But that was 2 years ago.
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Depends on whom you ask. Anyone with a widget loaden smartphone will tell you that battery life is o.K. I guess you either had a faulty Firmware or a faulty battery. If you need reference for current phones with faulty frimware, google Nokia Lumia 800 battery issue.

Actually Nokia had a big messup with the UMTS-chip draining the battery (and it didn't matter how many live tiles you used). Setting the phone to 2G gave you nearly a week of battery life!

But I guess battery life has to be the best excuse Apple will offer you (they always do - like leaving 3G out of first gen iPhone, not supporting MMS on first gen iPhone, killing Siri on iPhone4 and 3GS).

Rogifan said:
I hope I'm wrong. But if the UI stays the same and the phone gets taller, that's exactly what we'll have.
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Sarcasm in this forum. Never. Everybody will tell you that you are just to blind to see the magic in it.
 
adildacoolset said:
a taller screen means that the aspect ratio would be different. So keeping it like this would need pixels of different sizes within one display, which would be silly
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We are only assuming the new iPhone will be the same width. It would only have to be marginally wider to get the same resolution albeit with bigger pixels.

I can't see them changing the aspect ratio. ;)
 
drewisanapple said:
Think iPad, you didn't have an iPad to test on, it was a virtual OS.
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That's right. Which means Xcode update with resolution changes. Question is do they count the second resolution a feature of iOS6 or do they hang onto that for a bit longer. They have precedent for holding onto it but it also makes sense to let it out. After all it's practically old news already and some notice for developers would be considerate to their hard work. Not all developers can drop everything last minute to rush a late anounced feature through because many have other work commitments. So I think if Apple care as much about the developers as they like us to think the they will do the right thing and announce the resolution change at the iOS6 announcement.
 
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MaxGravy said:
The two-tone grey/white of the "6" reminds me of the two-tone leaked iphone cases.
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Ok besides the obviouse sarcasm. Some seem seriouse. The two tone is a reflection graphic nothing more. I would think the silver is representative in some way. I wouldn't be surprised if the ripples are from one of the new backgrounds; but the choice to use it is likely insegnificant other than presenting the right message, feeling, freshness etc. Personally I find the banner boring and unexciting.

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Don't be mistaken. I can't wait for the spoiled free 2 hours in front of our TV! It's a fun thing.

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actually that reminds me. Something I'd love to do but can't see ever being possible. We have a nice shiny Samsung TV. But the software is impossibly far from well designed. It's pathetic. I'd like to run apple tv iOS6 on there. Unfortunately I doubt it could since it seems stupidly underpowered it can barely run the crap it has on it. Smart as in Stupid. Bsides that the tv as a display is superb. They just need to use their smarts and replace the processor and find a way to do a special license with Apple. Maybe a settlement deal. Besides Apple not allowing it this wouldnt be any different to them using Androide which is what will likely happen.
 
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Piggie said:
It's hardly REALLY changed since the 1st iPhone launched in any "in your face" way.
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That's the point. Apple is selling millions of iDevices each month, they do not need to radically change anything, despite what you or I want. They have an excellent OS and they will do things the same way they have with OSX, slow subtle changes and a few feature upgrades every year (or couple years for OSX).

I hope they do go with the silver theme which seems likely at this point. Also if they could allow users to add widgets to the notification center, even if they had to be approved by apple and bought from the app store, that would be nice. I want the weather widget in my iPad notification center without having to jailbreak.
 
stu.h said:
We are only assuming the new iPhone will be the same width. It would only have to be marginally wider to get the same resolution albeit with bigger pixels.

I can't see them changing the aspect ratio. ;)
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I guess, but really I can't see the need for a 4" screen other than to help a few old people that have trouble reading. Many people want larger screens only because other companies have it.
 
ekdor said:
Personally I find the banner boring and unexciting.
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That's because you're a jaded MacRumors user. Over on Engadget, the breaking news about the iOS 6 banner is up to 1400 comments, mostly from people who are insanely offended by "The world's most advanced mobile operating system"
 
doelcm82 said:
That's because you're a jaded MacRumors user. Over on Engadget, the breaking news about the iOS 6 banner is up to 1400 comments, mostly from people who are insanely offended by "The world's most advanced mobile operating system"
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Jaded. Not sure your angle. But maybe your right. Been reading too much and something like a simple banner doesn't cut it anymore. Can't wait for the feed.

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Ok I haven't read all 300+ comments but many of them. Think this is something new. The ripples in the logo look all wonky. Doesn't look like its a wrinkle in the banner. The curves don't flow. It's unpleasant to me. I can't imagine Steve would have settled for that. Assuming its not an distortion in the photo.
 
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doelcm82 said:
That's because you're a jaded MacRumors user. Over on Engadget, the breaking news about the iOS 6 banner is up to 1400 comments, mostly from people who are insanely offended by "The world's most advanced mobile operating system"
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They are offended because it IS the world's most advanced mobile operating system.

Other OSs have more advanced aspects or features to be sure, but iOS is more advanced overall BECAUSE it dispenses with some features for their own sake and FOCUSES on user and developer required features and SYSTEMS that improve the overall experience such that all faults and shortcomings are irrelevant in the overall scheme of things. x2.

Rocketman
 
ekdor said:
Jaded. Not sure your angle. But maybe your right. Been reading too much and something like a simple banner doesn't cut it anymore. Can't wait for the feed.

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Ok I haven't read all 300+ comments but many of them. Think this is something new. The ripples in the logo look all wonky. Doesn't look like its a wrinkle in the banner. The curves don't flow. It's unpleasant to me. I can't imagine Steve would have settled for that. Assuming its not an distortion in the photo.
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You need a vacation.
 
I hate to be the party pooper, but I really wouldn't get your hopes up for iOS 6 (or WWDC in general). I think it's all most likely going to be small updates with the main new feature being iMaps.
Sadly becuase of all the rumours lots of people are going to be very disappointed even though apple never promised a thing.
 
GoGa said:
I hate to be the party pooper, but I really wouldn't get your hopes up for iOS 6 (or WWDC in general). I think it's all most likely going to be small updates with the main new feature being iMaps.
Sadly becuase of all the rumours lots of people are going to be very disappointed even though apple never promised a thing.
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I'm saving this post and if it turns out to be totally false I am not even going to say I told you so. You will know it and every reader will know it and that's good enough for me.
 
ekdor said:
Jaded. Not sure your angle. But maybe your right. Been reading too much and something like a simple banner doesn't cut it anymore. Can't wait for the feed.

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Ok I haven't read all 300+ comments but many of them. Think this is something new. The ripples in the logo look all wonky. Doesn't look like its a wrinkle in the banner. The curves don't flow. It's unpleasant to me. I can't imagine Steve would have settled for that. Assuming its not an distortion in the photo.
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:rolleyes:
 
New minor rumor I heard for WWDC on Monday -- Twitter will have new apps ready for the desktop and iOS. The iOS app will include use of the new Siri APIs and will be demoed at the keynote. There will also be some added iCloud functionality between them (synching of Twitter streams?).

Also, these apps will be available immediately after the keynote. I'm assuming that's because Apple will release iOS 6 to developers immediately and the added functionality will only work for them. But what would be really exciting is if this functionality will just start to work with Siri without iOS 6.
 
adildacoolset said:
I guess, but really I can't see the need for a 4" screen other than to help a few old people that have trouble reading. Many people want larger screens only because other companies have it.
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Yep... it's really not going to give you much room to read. If you are using your device mostly to watch movies... um... even the iPad is kinda small for that (but usable for when you need portability). If you are watching on a phone you're in a spot where portability is far more important and honestly a half inch really isn't going to give you much. But I will give if you are finding your eyes straining easily from age it might be a good thing.

doelcm82 said:
That's because you're a jaded MacRumors user. Over on Engadget, the breaking news about the iOS 6 banner is up to 1400 comments, mostly from people who are insanely offended by "The world's most advanced mobile operating system"
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I don't know why but I find this insanely funny (I think cause people are getting up in arms about it. It's just a banner and of course they are going to have some marketing slogan to make them sound like they are the best. Do they expect them to say, "Mostly advanced"? It's advertising, they are going to try to make themselves sound the best, it's nothing new. I don't know, I am just envisioning a bunch of techies who are taking things way too literal all arguing about this).

GoGa said:
I hate to be the party pooper, but I really wouldn't get your hopes up for iOS 6 (or WWDC in general). I think it's all most likely going to be small updates with the main new feature being iMaps.
Sadly becuase of all the rumours lots of people are going to be very disappointed even though apple never promised a thing.
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Yep. I doubt iOS 6 is going to be a huge change. I don't honestly care. I'm pretty happy with iOS 5 except they really should let me see my notification screen from the lock screen. That does really annoy me still.

Honestly, all I really want is a much faster processor. The 4 is getting to be kinda crappy to play games with. Already there is one game I just wont' even play on it cause it lags running the app and it is just frustrating. And now that mom gave me her iPad 2 I don't really use the phone for gaming that much anymore so I'm caring less about that (ok, I still want a faster processor, sick of the 4 being a big laggy and even pausing to think sometimes... ugh!).
 
tigress666 said:
they really should let me see my notification screen from the lock screen. Honestly, all I really want is a much faster processor.
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It appears the iP5 will use the extra screen height for a unannounced notification center. I believe we will see a GPU enabled CPU stack on the next gen. They already increased RAM from 250k to 1024k on some chips. The next step is integrated GPU.

Rocketman
 
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