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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls

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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew

Banned
henhowc said:
Emoji can be added under keyboards. No additionally apps necessary. I believe this has been available since iOS 5 without any additional apps. After its enabled you can tap the globe icon to view available emoji to paste.
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Oh nice. Yeah, I originally added it under keyboards via Whatsapp. Didn't realize it was officially in as of 5.0. No app required = less apps! :mad:
 
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Marty Chinn

Member
LyleLanley said:
I think the fact that iOS 6 has been out for only a few hours and there are already apps for Ticketmaster, Fandango, Walgreens and MLB is a pretty encouraging sign.
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Not really because you know Apple had to be in talks with some partners since before they announced it. Fandango and Ticketmaster were already known quantities when iOS6 was announced. I think it's way too early to say it's a encouraging sign. We need to look beyond launch window to see how the support takes place.
 
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LyleLanley

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Greyface said:
Beta has been out for 3 months. I honestly expected better. Where are the airplane and banks plugins?
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Lufthansa already has an update out and I'm pretty sure Delta will have one very soon. I can't imagine banks jumping in too quickly with this however.


Marty Chinn said:
Not really because you know Apple had to be in talks with some partners since before they announced it. Fandango and Ticketmaster were already known quantities when iOS6 was announced. I think it's way too early to say it's a encouraging sign. We need to look beyond launch window to see how the support takes place.
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I'm probably being too optimistic, but I half expected it to launch with just Starbucks and Delta.
 
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planar1280

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KingKong said:
Haha, it is not going to be a wash. First, they're not going to have street view. Secondly, they just don't have the expertise that Google does.

Just getting the satellite data is the easy part


also, fuuuuck update requires at least 50% battery life to install, looks like no update at work :(
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think of it this way. What does every iphone have...twitter? facebook? just like that every iphone will have a google youtube and maps app which will be infinitely better than iOS delivered youtube and maps app which never updated.
 
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Marty Chinn

Member
Paradoxal_Utopia said:
Apple knows its of critical importance to get maps as good as possible as soon as possible. I have no doubt they have a ton of people/resources being poured into it, and that it will improve very quickly. Let's keep in mind Google has like a 10 year headstart on maps, and they have had a massive team working on it everyday. Can't expect Apple's V1 to be at that stage, but my prediction is that several months from now it will be a wash, which is a pretty monumental feat.

Anecdotally, I've had no issues with it in my city, every single listing I've looked up has been correct, and turn by turn is awesome, well implemented, and looks slick.
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Hahaha, you think Apple is going to be up to speed with Google in a matter of months? Seriously?
 
T

Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
planar1280 said:
You need an iPhone to tie iMessage to your phone.

On the iPad it works with email only
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iPad can use your phone number as well now to both start and receive conversations, but it requires an iPhone to begin with for the option to be available (same thing coming to OSX in 10.8.2).
 
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ponpo

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So many new ones ;_;
 
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BlackWaltz

lotta black folks here
Well, the podcast app is still a piece of shit that runs as if it's some third party crap rather than an Apple app on an Apple device. The app closes when paused and in the background much more quickly than the music player, doesn't remember what you were previously playing when you open it, and the system tray media player controls still treat it as a second class citizen(priority given to the Music player, as in, hit play with neither player being active and it opens the Music player). As an aggregator it's great, but fuck Apple for removing the ability to play podcasts in the default player, before actually turning this into a real app.
 
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Marty Chinn

Member
BlackWaltz said:
Well, the podcast app is still a piece of shit that runs as if it's some third party crap rather than an Apple app on an Apple device. The app closes when paused and in the background much more quickly than the music player, doesn't remember what you were previously playing when you open it, and the system tray media player controls still treat it as a second class citizen(priority given to the Music player, as in, hit play with neither player being active and it opens the Music player). As an aggregator it's great, but fuck Apple for removing the ability to play podcasts in the default player, before actually turning this into a real app.
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I forgot about this. Another reason I don't want to update to iOS6. It's going to break my car's access to podcasts.
 
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Dany

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BlackWaltz said:
Well, the podcast app is still a piece of shit that runs as if it's some third party crap rather than an Apple app on an Apple device. The app closes when paused and in the background much more quickly than the music player, doesn't remember what you were previously playing when you open it, and the system tray media player controls still treat it as a second class citizen(priority given to the Music player, as in, hit play with neither player being active and it opens the Music player). As an aggregator it's great, but fuck Apple for removing the ability to play podcasts in the default player, before actually turning this into a real app.
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instacast is good
 
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planar1280

Banned
Anandtech iOS6 review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6302/apple-ios-6-review-maps-investigated-and-more

Apple's iOS has now graduated into a fairly mature operating system. Features like Passbook and the new first party Maps application show that there still a lot of new tricks that we'll see despite where iOS is in its evolution curve.

The new Maps app and Passbook are easily the two biggest changes to iOS 6. The former is a bold move by Apple into controlling its own destiny, while the latter is a much needed feature that depends significantly on developers and third parties to make it useful.

The new first party Maps application does surprisingly well given Apple's relative inexperience in the field. Turn by turn navigation works incredibly well, and for cities with good 3D data the flyover experience is quite impressive. The problem is Apple's Maps application simply doesn't have the wealth of data that backed up the old Google driven Maps app. Public transit routing and a good amount of location data are simply missing. The burden is now entirely on Apple to ramp up its dataset in order to replace what has been lost. The question that remains is how long it will take Apple to get there.
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KingKong

Member
BlackWaltz said:
Well, the podcast app is still a piece of shit that runs as if it's some third party crap rather than an Apple app on an Apple device. The app closes when paused and in the background much more quickly than the music player, doesn't remember what you were previously playing when you open it, and the system tray media player controls still treat it as a second class citizen(priority given to the Music player, as in, hit play with neither player being active and it opens the Music player). As an aggregator it's great, but fuck Apple for removing the ability to play podcasts in the default player, before actually turning this into a real app.
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What I do is use the Podcasts up to check for new episodes and then download them and use them with the Music app since that saves progress when syncing with iTunes and solves all those issues

it sounds like you can't play podcasts in Music.app in iOS 6 though? that would suuuuuuuuck
 
R

railGUN

Banned
I'm digging this update. Safari is speedy as fuck. I expected Siri to not work well, based on what people on this board have said, but it works fantastic. It understands everything I say, and returns the results fast.
 
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cloud_sleep

Member
Maps is bad. The POI data is really incomplete for my location. It thinks the nearest ATM is 15 miles away when actually there are several much nearer. That's just one example of many. Will not be replacing my Satnav just yet.

Also satellite view is laughably bad - is Apple using Sputnik?
 
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Gowans

Member
I used the music app 90% of the time for podcasts and audio books.

This podcast app is gona take some getting used too.
 
F

Fuu

Formerly Alaluef (not Aladuf)
I wasn't going to believe it until I saw it but this is seriously so much snappier than iOS 5 on the iPhone 4.
 
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Lucifon

Junior Member
Egghhhhh the new maps is terrible, not a fan of the new layout when searching on the app store on an iPad at all either. Also removal of YouTube and no standalone Youtube app for iPad yet is terrible, it's easily what I use my iPad for 95% of the time. I'll have to switch to using the website for now, but it's not ideal.

Wish I could roll back to 5 on my iPad. Will certainly be sticking with jailbroken 5 for now on my phone.
 
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