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One cannot help but notice pretty much all of these features have been in Android for quite some time.. I had the ability to filter text messages, calls, auto reject, etc from specific numbers for about two years...

I really don't see a lot of enhancements that are not just apps themselves... live-icons would have been nice (like windows phone 7 does)...

Looks like they are still riding the wave of Steve Jobs ideas... I suspect next year they won't be able to "re-label" features from one device to another...

Retina display is just the same technology now on a laptop (which was first phone, then ipad, now laptop)..

Siri... yawn.... sports? Turn by turn... Android has allowed you to say "Go to the closest Hastings" and automatically guide you there since the first DROID....

Adding Siri to an IPad is not amazing at all, it's had the ability (just locked) for quite some time...

No wonder Scott Forstall cashed in 95 percent of his stock, he sees it coming.

Wouldn't want to be holding TomTom shares once iOS6 lands!

I have to say that for "the world's most advanced mobile operating system" today's announcements were a bit underwhelming. Facebook integration and GPS functionality are cool but the competition (namely Android) has had both and then some for years now.

Since iOS 5, it seems as if Apple is playing catch-up features-wise with the competition, all the while suing them for "patently copying" iOS.

Am I the only one that sees the irony?

BdotEss, on 11 June 2012 - 11:14 AM, said:

I don't think it is really catch-up so much as Apple wanting to do things "right" (at least in their estimation). The GPS stuff isn't just GPS, it's their own completely new mapping system, which gives them complete freedom to do what they want regarding location services. A lot of the other features are much the same. Apple has never really been about blindly checking off boxes on a feature list, it wants to do things in a more polished way (not always successfully, but that's clearly their goal).

Love all the "been in Android for quite some time" negative posts. Problem with that logic is I have NOT wanted an Android for quite some time.
I think it looks like a great update.

This post has been edited by mikejl: 11 June 2012 - 11:26 AM

I think my daughter gets about a billion push notifications a week from the app pushers who drain her battery.

It sucks , users who made the ipad succesfull and still use the first ipad are left in the dark

Here's what we didn't get. No lockscreen and notification ehancements, with quick setting icons. No major ui change to springboard, no unified fluid ui for phone and messaging app. No keyboard API/enhancements. Things that I crave, and the reason to jailbreak. All the other features are a reat improvement, but only makes me want to keep jailbeaking. Don't have to worry about this with android, but the UI is not as fluid and nice! Cross your fingers for jellybean for adding a more fluid UI for lockscreen and notification.

E.g .I don't want just to be able to put random widgets, I want it to look nice like the way intelliscreen x does for jailbreak iPhones. Also the ability rearange the notification order, and I hate opening up different apps to call and text, instant message from google talk, tweet, etc. one nice fluid app would be great.

Does the Maps app require a connection. I still need a mapping app that works when I'm offline or with a bad connection. Navigon may still be needed.

Massive thumbs up for 'DO NOT DISTURB'. I've long requested this for overnight use (If Apple hadn't have done it this time I was seriously thinking of getting an App written), and the emergency override if someone phones you back twice is exactly what I was after.

Hopefully, it'll include some OVER-RIDE POWER NUMBERS too so if family or whatever phone me in the middle of the night I'll know it's an emergency.

A+ Apple!

I'm sure the cell phone companies aren't thrilled with the 1 billion iMessages a day. That's a lot of lost revenue to them.

wesselah, on 11 June 2012 - 11:30 AM, said:

I am surprised iPhone 3GS gets iOS 6 and not the first iPad. Is that iPhone more powerful?

paulnelson8vp4, on 11 June 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:

But how many of those people are like me, in which I would never text because of the cost, but would be willing to use iMessage?