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Re: Apple iOS6 Preview

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Post by kylebrown »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #17
RowanH wrote: post #3

Did I just read this right "iOS 6 brings even better web browsing to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch." .... "And when you’re posting a photo or video to eBay, Craigslist, or another site, you can take photos and video — or choose from your Camera Roll — without leaving Safari." mobile web just took a huge step forward if so.....

This has been in HTML for almost 2 years now. Rather than being a step forward foe the mobile web, it shows how behind the mobile web is, as the two most dominant players in mobile only update their browsers once a year. I'm guessing iOS6 doesn't add support for IndexedDB either. So we're stuck using the deprecated WebSQL until mid 2013 or later.

Didn't realize until just now what a pain it is to post photos on craigslist, etc: take photo with camera/phone, sync with laptop, use laptop to post photo. That's probably the reason Instagram had traction. Is this already easy on Android?

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Post by anextio »

wavephorm wrote: post #62
biot wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iPad 1 does have a microphone; I use mine for Skype calling at times.

Oops, I've actually never used it. So I guess Siri should be able to work on iPad 1 also. Anything Apple says about the hardware being incapable of using Siri sounds is probably a load of their typical bullshit.

They're still supporting the iPhone 3GS, aren't they?

If they had a viable reason to put resources into the iPad 1 and have it meet their performance and usability requirements, they would have.

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Post by kizza »

technoslut wrote: post #22
timdorr wrote: post #20

Interesting that the new Maps makes no mention of public transit support. Is that gone completely now? It looks like your app can register as a "router" to support different types of navigation routing, but it would suck if that is no longer built in.

Since it was Google's data, Apple will probably build it back in at some other point since it's what they've done previously.

Apple could use the same data standard as Google does already: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference

I'm sure the transit providers would be happy to provide the same feed to Apple and Google, but it looks like Apple want to make something new and incompatible.

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Post by alanfalcon »

I've been trying to get serious about claiming specific periods of the day for productivity, and have been trying to find a good way to allow my wife to still contact me in case of emergencies while otherwise preventing other distractions from coming through on my phone. The new Do Not Disturb features are exactly what I've been looking for, and I really like some of the specific touches like the ability to let people call twice to bypass the setting.

Re: Apple iOS6 Preview

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Post by harrylove »

ryannielsen wrote: post #59
wavephorm wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care about new iOS features, or any of their iCloud nonsense, I know it won't support Siri (ipad1 lacked a microphone). What I do care about is the web browser on my iPad not receiving any software updates... ever. That's a serious problem. Without any software upgrades ever, the iPad will become the future IE. In fact, this is worse because of Apple's closed system they also won't allow 3rd parties to upgrad…

Without any software upgrades ever, the iPad will become the future IE. In fact, this is worse because of Apple's closed system they also won't allow 3rd parties to upgrade the software either. Huh? Citation needed. Apple didn't suddenly cut off App Store updates to iPad 1. Developers are free to support (or not support) iOS 5, just as they were with other iOS updates. Furthermore, are you remotely surprised by this?…

> How many Android users are stuck on 2.2 or 2.3, with a horribly crippled browser?

The answer is: most of them. ~90.2% are on Android 2.3 or below as of June 1, 2012[1].

[1] http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

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Post by brianpan »

dockd wrote: post #83
ChuckMcM wrote: post #57

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Sort of FYI, Google's original effort at providing their own database for map information was that Navtec would not license them the right to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation. It was really quite amazing to see all of the constraints that were put on map data (it was so much easier for Trimble, the original company, to exploit their map database than to try to compete in the gadget space). I don't doubt that…

Good quality of results is difficult to get even on paved roads without "boots on the ground". Consider driving down a street with stop signs at every intersection (NW Northrup St) or one with speed bumps every block (SE 41st Ave).

Or both...yesterday google maps on my iPhone took me to Taylor Ave in Sunnyvale. Those are stop signs and gutters deep enough for cars to scrape the ground! Either street north or south would have been better.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=37.384429,-122.022368&spn=0....

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Post by hammersend »

ryannielsen wrote: post #59
wavephorm wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care about new iOS features, or any of their iCloud nonsense, I know it won't support Siri (ipad1 lacked a microphone). What I do care about is the web browser on my iPad not receiving any software updates... ever. That's a serious problem. Without any software upgrades ever, the iPad will become the future IE. In fact, this is worse because of Apple's closed system they also won't allow 3rd parties to upgrad…

Without any software upgrades ever, the iPad will become the future IE. In fact, this is worse because of Apple's closed system they also won't allow 3rd parties to upgrade the software either. Huh? Citation needed. Apple didn't suddenly cut off App Store updates to iPad 1. Developers are free to support (or not support) iOS 5, just as they were with other iOS updates. Furthermore, are you remotely surprised by this?…

"Do you have the same issues with Android? There's a platform that's destined to be the "future IE". How many Android users are stuck on 2.2 or 2.3, with a horribly crippled browser?"

You do realize that there are third party browsers on Android that have their own rendering engines that you can install right? You don't have to ever use the built in Android browser if you don't want to. I've found Firefox works quite well actually.

Re: Apple iOS6 Preview

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Post by neilparikh »

chrislomax wrote: post #55

It's hard to get excited when there is no mention of how well it is supported in the UK. I don't know how well Siri will do in the UK with the updates and if we will get the map support for turn by turn. We still can't search for businesses in the UK

It's the same in Canada. It's quite frustrating, especially when that's one of the heavily marketed parts of Siri.

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Post by hrbrtglm »

alanfalcon wrote: post #94

I've been trying to get serious about claiming specific periods of the day for productivity, and have been trying to find a good way to allow my wife to still contact me in case of emergencies while otherwise preventing other distractions from coming through on my phone. The new Do Not Disturb features are exactly what I've been looking for, and I really like some of the specific touches like the ability to let peopl…

That's a nice feature, but still looks half-baked for me. It's now ios6 and you still need to jailbreak your iphone to blacklist people harassing you with phone calls or imessage. What I do need is a blacklist feature which send to /dev/null people I don't want to talk to or receive imessage or sms from, and the DND feature looks more like a whitelist only available to phone calls. Maybe in ios 7 ? It seems like a basic feature and I wonder which Apple Developper Program rule prevent to develop such an app available in the app store.

Re: Apple iOS6 Preview

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Post by RyJones »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #57
astral303 wrote: post #37

Maps with turn-by-turn navigation (long overdue) and transit APIs sound very promising. Having portable maps is one of the key strengths of a smartphone and this kind of lower-level integration now kicks it up a notch. He mentioned "biking and hiking" for the transit apps: that's exciting! Also, turn-by-turn navigation has this "overview" mode--tap it and you exit the forced-point-of-view navigation and get to pan ar…

Sort of FYI, Google's original effort at providing their own database for map information was that Navtec would not license them the right to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation. It was really quite amazing to see all of the constraints that were put on map data (it was so much easier for Trimble, the original company, to exploit their map database than to try to compete in the gadget space). I don't doubt that…

In my former life in US-GEO (MapPoint, Streets & Trips, 1997 or 1998) at Microsoft, one of the tools I worked on normalized data sets from disparate vendors. One of the largest jobs we had was figuring out mappings from the "north" of one vendor and the "north" of another, as the vendors for high-quality data sets varied from locale to locale.

Frequently, you would need to rotate and transform the data to get it close enough that the geometry could be snapped together. This usually required some manual intervention; nothing like the human eye for detecting an array of streets suddenly had a 1 degree kink where it crossed some stitching line.

Our licensing for the data sets was very strict, and deformed the products in interesting ways, as you might imagine.

My fondest memory of working with that group was inserting POIs - we all got a POI, provided it wasn't obscene or something. I named a feature close to where I grew up; sadly, the POIs were culled every edition.

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