iO6 Upgrade........

they call me 2 phones jones

one is my work phone

 

I need to check it against my wife's un-upgraded 4S, but I saw the same thing myself when I upgraded. Less lag on scrolling to the point where it felt like it was predicting my thumb movements instead of reacting to them. Everything else feels snappy and OH MY GOD PULL TO REFRESH IN MAIL!!! FINALLY!

 

Panorama works just fine on my 4S; it's an iOS6 feature.

 

This is also bullshit; turn-by-turn works on my 4S (just checked).

 

I have the 4, sorry

 

I don't understand anything in this thread. Also, I don't know what a meme is, and I can't pronounce Ayn Rand's first name. But I do know that on tablets, Blackberry > Android 4.0.

 

After looking online, it only works on the 5 and 4s. Shit!

Isnt VOICE turn by turn only on the iPhone 5? On screen turn by turn only works on 5 & 4s. Shit!

 

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/welcome-to-apples-ios6-map-where-berlin-is-now-called-schoeneiche/

one of my favorite comments on techcrunch:

Great so now there's going to be thousands of hipsters driving around lost

 

Wow -- the new Maps app is a serious downgrade. This will be a MAJOR problem for Apple unless they get their shit together, fast.

 

I was hearing voice directions when I tried it out... but yeah,4S.

 

pretty much killed me buying the iphone tomorrow b/c of that. might later if they put the google maps app back on.

 

and what's the deal with turn by turn. my 2 1/2 year old phone has always had that. ??

 

Does it verbally announce turns automatically as you approach them, just like a GPS navigation unit? Of course it's nothing new in terms of technology, but that's a feature that Google Maps was never able (or allowed?) to do on iPhones previously. Unfortunately, it turns out that announcing directions on roads that don't exist isn't all that helpful. I don't know if the problem is with the data TomTom provided, or the way that Apple processed it, but the app is a disaster.

 

Yes. yes it does.

 

See the rest of my reply:

 

yah. at least i don't need to wake up early tomorrow to buy teh iphones now. will keep my current phone for a while, maybe get the galaxy s3 but probably not.

 

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/facebook-email-contact-sync/

 

I don't really see a problem with this, actually. Facebook made it harder for users to have their personal email information scraped off of their profiles under default settings (which I consider a good thing), a move which also happens to limit the iPhone's FB contact sync (which is probably not how most users populate their friends' email information anyway). I think it's a stretch to call this some kind of cooperative attack on Google.

That said, this developing Apple/Google spat is silly and ultimately a bad thing for consumers.