iOS 6

[Bahumat]

You can download it now

 

[Poag]

Its terrible....ok its not...but its not a massive improvement over iOS5

Apple maps is also hilarious!

 

[DaGaffer]

I can barely spot any differences tbh. Maps...um. Passbook, irrelevant outside the US for the time being, a "VIP" thing in email (gaaay) and they've done something to Facebook but I'm not sure what.

 

[cHodAX]

It's looking a bit long in the tooth to be honest but they have made some nice behind the scenes changes so I can't fault the release. Side by side with WP8 though it just looks OLD. Apple need to cook up something a bit more modern for version 7.

 

[Moriath]

they need open widgets on the screen not just open an app but like a clock widget or a calendar widget or a weather widget that you can have on the screen all the time like android does.

Thats what i miss from my android phone

 

[soze]

No they don't need Widgets I can just ask Siri what the time or the weather is. Everyone looks cool talking to their phone!!

Seriously though the update went very smoothly and over the air again so no need for iTunes. The Siri update seems good and it is rejecting me much less often. I will drive home with the Maps feature and see what happens.

Bad point though is I have lost OrangeT-Mobile which had full signal and now only have EE with 1 bar which is back to the Orange only signal levels.

 

[Kryten]

I will drive home with the Maps feature and see what happens..

So when did you arrive in Florida? (the county Apple think is just south of Sri Lanka)

 

[soze]

Are you trolling or have i missed something?

I forgot the drive home using it, I told Siri to Navigate to home and it did pull up the right route very quickly and told me to turn left on "Road Name" which I liked. I will try to use it properly.

 

[Kryten]

You've probably missed something - i.e. Apple maps or whatever it's called is currently the internet laughing stock. No need to go into detail, at least unless you leave near "Duncaster" or your village is now in the middle of the pacific. It's entirely shit. All the cockups notwithstanding (there's too many to point out, it's just cock) it's silly as they marketed it as better than Google Maps and that there's currently no choice. It's about as far from Google Maps quality as rootling through an A2 sized Atlas of Great Britan from 1983 whilst simultaneously driving and telling the mrs to STFU.

 

[Lamp]

I've not used Apple's maps, so can't comment. I'm fairly happy with Google Maps. Does what it says on the tin. I never ask it to do anything complicated. I have an app called Memory Map, which is A-Z official maps. Excellent, especially the Superscale Central London map on it. The amount of detail on it is superb.

http://shop.memory-map.co.uk/acatalog/iPhone_iPad_Apps.html

 

[Yaka]

think i'll wait for the jailbreak before i try it,

 

[soze]

Jailbreak is already out for some devices.


I just used it again and navigating to a contact is a breeze just tell Siri to "navigate to home" and boom the route is there.

And I have seen some of the shit on the Internet and it looks like people have forgot that Google Maps is years old and apple maps was released today get a grip. It is early days everything has teething issues.

 

[old.user4556]

Downloaded for my iPad.

Maps. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAA. What a fail.

 

[Yaka]

meh not for 4s or new ipad, ive upgraded the ipad to ios 6 but not my phone, my game folder would be messed up stupid limits on how many apps in folder. infifolder just makes things seem so much tidy

 

[dysfunction]

And I have seen some of the shit on the Internet and it looks like people have forgot that Google Maps is years old and apple maps was released today get a grip. It is early days everything has teething issues.

I didn't think Apple had teething issues. Everything just works doesn't it.

Also why not stay with Google until you have a map system that is actually correct and works properly.

 

[soze]

I didn't think Apple had teething issues. Everything just works doesn't it.

Also why not stay with Google until you have a map system that is actually correct and works properly.

Never been my experience with anything new.

And I have no idea. If Google charge any sort of license for using Google maps then maybe Apple decided they did not want to pay. Maybe they wanted to add the navigation features into Google Maps but Google would not allow it forcing them to move?

 

[soze]

Facebook integration is a bag full of go fuck yourself. Thanks to the new Facebook email addresses it just duplicates contacts. Total load of arse.

 

[Kryten]

If Apple's thing is so new why is it using mapping data that's bloody ancient. You'd have thought someone might have glanced over it just to make sure it wasn't going to make them look fucking silly. Oh - hang on - that's typical of Apple really in total isn't it. The fanboy's won't give a shit, the haters will jump on it like rats from a sinking ship and everyone else will just laugh at the fails and go back to their day.

 

[Poag]

Jailbreak is already out for some devices.


I just used it again and navigating to a contact is a breeze just tell Siri to "navigate to home" and boom the route is there.

And I have seen some of the shit on the Internet and it looks like people have forgot that Google Maps is years old and apple maps was released today get a grip. It is early days everything has teething issues.

Yes GMaps has been around since the beginning. However the Maps app on iOS was Apples implementation of Google Maps...not googles. Apple neglected to update it, the same as they did with youtube. They were counting on people not knowing this and getting angry at Google for not updating core apps...didn't pan out.

And if Apple is so "Amazing" and "revolutionary" and "Its the best apple device ever"....why replace a 5 year old App with a worse version?
Thats my only issue, the fanbois say how amazing it is...but when you actually look at it..its not. Peoples fanboi vision really annoys me

 

[Poag]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19659736

The pics at the bottom are fairly funny

Lots of roads missing it seems.

 

[Poag]

http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/

 

[Poag]

Ok enough maps thigns.

On the tube into work this morning, i spotted this guy at the other end of the carriage who was standing in a very odd way, also very Araby...suicide bomber! ...with an iPhone.

Took me a minute to realise it but it was a iPhone5..he was holding it in his hand, screen pointing out, facing down the carriage. When someone looked towards him, hes desperately point the screen in their direction. I'm fairly sure he was desperatly hoping someone would say "Oh is that the new iPhone?" .... noone did.

He looked so sad.

 

[Lamp]

They've been Q'ing for weeks, days & hours in NY, London, & Sydney to get one. Apparently, Steve Wozniak (a founder of Apple, net worth $100,000,000) queues up for each and every Apple product.

 

[soze]

Yes GMaps has been around since the beginning. However the Maps app on iOS was Apples implementation of Google Maps...not googles. Apple neglected to update it, the same as they did with youtube. They were counting on people not knowing this and getting angry at Google for not updating core apps...didn't pan out.

And if Apple is so "Amazing" and "revolutionary" and "Its the best apple device ever"....why replace a 5 year old App with a worse version?
Thats my only issue, the fanbois say how amazing it is...but when you actually look at it..its not. Peoples fanboi vision really annoys me

I am not saying it is great I have not used it in anger yet. But the few tests I have done it has been good. I will never use it for the same reason I never used Google Maps and that is I go through too many black spots for signal to rely on something that needs internet access to function.

As earlier I imagine the relationship between Apple and Google is the reason for the change. Maybe Google wanted to charge Apple for adding turn by turn navigation?

 

[Poag]

I am not saying it is great I have not used it in anger yet. But the few tests I have done it has been good. I will never use it for the same reason I never used Google Maps and that is I go through too many black spots for signal to rely on something that needs internet access to function.

As earlier I imagine the relationship between Apple and Google is the reason for the change. Maybe Google wanted to charge Apple for adding turn by turn navigation?

Far as i'm aware. Google actually paid Apple to use their search engine and maps. From googles point of view it was worth the investment to get the software in more peoples hands. It was Apple that refused to do the software updates :/

 

[caLLous]

It's quite hilarious the lengths fanboys will go to to defend their beloved Apple. Like with widgets, everyone on Android happily has widgets of one sort or another on their home screen (I've never seen an Android handset without a widget of some description but some people probably do without them) and Apple fanboys sit there defiantly saying how uninterested they are in what is clearly a very good idea. I bet if (probably when) widgets finally turn up in iOS they will be the best thing EVER.

 

[Poag]

http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/20/googl...approval-it-is-solely-up-to-apple-to-approve/

Google Supplied Google Maps...awaiting Apple approval.....

 

[Bahumat]

Facebook integration is a bag full of go fuck yourself. Thanks to the new Facebook email addresses it just duplicates contacts. Total load of arse.

Try going into Contacts > Groups > unstick Facebook

 

[soze]

It's quite hilarious the lengths fanboys will go to to defend their beloved Apple. Like with widgets, everyone on Android happily has widgets of one sort or another on their home screen (I've never seen an Android handset without a widget of some description but some people probably do without them) and Apple fanboys sit there defiantly saying how uninterested they are in what is clearly a very good idea. I bet if (probably when) widgets finally turn up in iOS they will be the best thing EVER.

Not this fan boy I love both Apple and to a lesser extent WinMo for getting rid of Widgets and the temptation for me to fuck about with them! Although on WinMo I still move the Bastard live tiles about all the time

Try going into Contacts > Groups > unstick Facebook

Yeah I turned off the Facebook Contacts but I still had to tidy up my gmail address book.

 

[MYstIC G]

I can barely spot any differences tbh. Maps...um. Passbook, irrelevant outside the US for the time being, a "VIP" thing in email (gaaay) and they've done something to Facebook but I'm not sure what.

It whores its calendar into your calendar and its contacts into your contacts... one to turn off tbfh.