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Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by iamdann »

I haven't really had any problems with iOS 6 on my iPhone 4S. Then again, I live in a big city within the United States, so the map change was an adjustment rather than a disaster. But I can understand the negative feedback.

This is also the first time (in recent history) that hardcore Apple fans are finding themselves responding to critics by saying, "Yes, that's a valid point, but..." rather than "No, you're wrong because..." Chink in the armor.

Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by asparagui »

Honestly, and this applies to all updates on any system: wait a month. Developers will move over their apps. Any major bugs will be found and shook out. Stackoverflow/blogs will be populated with answers on "how do I do $thing_that_has_changed"?

And B, upgrade a non-essential machine first. The only thing you gain by upgrading willy-nilly is Internet e-peen points, and after a while you realize those aren't worth losing a day or week or month or year's worth of work (hello rsync -E) to being the first mouse. Yes, this isn't as exciting. As for me, I like my systems very very boring.

Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by kmfrk »

Well, what features do people here think are worth the upgrade?

I for one like the new privacy settings.

Passbook could be really interesting, but I think it'll be well over a year, before people in my country consider taking advantage of it.

Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by Tooluka »

My 3GS works identically on v5 and v6. No performance or battery life degradation, no new lags. My friends with 4 and 4S tell that battery life actually improved, especially for 4S. Neither of us use jailbreaks of any kind.

PS: and as for iPad 2 I'm not sure about battery life, I rarely discharge it from 100 to 0 in one session.

Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by MBCook »

I did, and I'm glad. The maps thing is unfortunate, but I'm sure it will get better. In the mean time you can still use maps.google.com and I'm sure Google will release their own app some day.

Bits of the system feel faster, but I can say that Music got a massive speed improvement. I have a playlist of over 5k songs that I like to listen to shuffled. On iOS 5.1, opening that playlist for the first time would take two or three seconds and hitting the "Shuffle all" button at the top of the list to start playing would take take another few seconds.

In iOS 6, they're both extremely fast. Combine that with the ability to use iCloud tabs and I'm quite happy.

Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by rangibaby »

I haven't found any show-stopping or even new bugs yet with normal usage since the update came out. The new iPod app looks and feels quite nice.

Just go ahead and upgrade; you'll end up wanting some iOS6 feature / app eventually, might as well get it out of the way now.

Re: Should I download iOS6 for my iPhone4?

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Post by mambodog »

I'm guessing the Google Maps app will be out in a month or two. Apple probably won't approve it right away, as a good quality Maps app would really make Google look like the hero, swooping in to save us from Apple's lesser service. Once the response to iOS6 has blown over it'll turn up in the App Store, lots of people will download it, and things will be more or less back to normal (apart from the bruising to Apple's reputation).
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