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Daniel, your post is completely and utterly predictable but I still cant quite understand why your trying to point out things that everyone knows already. Apple always take old things and throw magic fairy dust over them and magically a whole lot more people want them. I'm guessing most rival tablet manufacturers weren't complaining when tablets took off again after the launch of the ipad. Long live the magic fairy dust eh?. :p
Your post is somewhat akin to complaining about someone complaining about how hot it is when it's 40 degrees outside? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
Maybe so. I think I'm just bored of you trying to tell us that Apple are evil because they are not innovative. We all know they just glitz up old things you don't need to give is a blow by blow account of what they have sprinkled the fairy dust over. We have a good idea already. :p
For once we agree! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by odykas
And perhaps I'm tired of you telling what to say and what not to say?
Windoze products will be getting fairy dust in version 3.5.1 update 3. So there! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
Surely Windoze cant have magic fairy dust as well. Say it isnt so. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by airshifter
Its quite interrsting that Apple have said you have all this stuff but not until Autumn though. Is it paving the way for a new or revamped iPhone with the new IOS later in the year?
But iOS 5 looks promising and I'm looking forward to it giving my iPhone a new lease of life. As good as iOS is at the things it does, there are some glaring omissions!Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
And Nokia too, the camera always has a seperate button so hold it down and the camera app starts.Quote:
Ability to take photos without unlocking the phone with the click of a button, WP7 has done it since launch. Probably one of the most useful features WP7 offers
Apple iOS 5 adds instant camera access from lock screen and shutter release to volume-up button -- Engadget
As did many other phones.Quote:
Uploading your crap to the cloud, WP7 already did it :)
This is about flamin' time. They really did need to get away from the idea that you have a home computer and your phone must return to it on a regular basis. You should be able to just have a phone and nothing else! I can see major firmware updates needing to be done via a wire (as Nokia did). I wonder if they offer an OS upgrade service at Apple shops, and if they charge for it?Quote:
Syncing over WiFi, WP7 already did it.
OTA updates, Nokia has been doing this for years.
Which makes little sense :p . Sure in some ways WP is better in other ways iOS is better, this is hardly a surprise?Quote:
Now of course adding features is a good thing so you can hardly criticise Apple for it, but I just wanted to point out that in some ways WP7 is superior to iOS. Of course only an idiot would say that WP7 as it is at the moment is better than iOS but I think come Mango time the gap will be far smaller :)
Sorry I can't do flash :laugh:Quote:
Have a look at this and tell me that the Bing visual search isn't cool :)
PS. iOS 5 does look look :D , considering it won't be out until "the fall" can we assume that the iPhone 5 won't be out until then either?
Updating without a computer should have been a feature from day one: an iPhone and especially an iPad should be considered stand-alone devices and it's monumentally stupid that they rely so heavily on iTunes. Software and OS updates should be performed OTA as a when required - I've just updated half a dozen Android apps with a couple of clicks.
Don't take this as an anti-Apple rant, they've shown that they can successfully shake up a market by making existing ideas user-friendly, but this update just seems to show them playing catch up once again in a market they previously dominated.
As for The Cloud, I can see some uses: for example my calendar and email are up there somewhere and sync effortlessly to my phone and computers; as do contacts, navigation points and some small documents. But what all of these have in common are small file size which I can easily duplicate on my devices.
What I don't think will ever take off is having your media stored in the cloud, mainly because connectivity cannot be guaranteed - especially on the move. I can store thousands of hours of music on a portable device which won't suffer if I'm in a tunnel, out in the sticks, or hit my network's arbitrary usage cap.