Apple unveils iOS 5 with Notification Center, 1500 added APIs, 200 new user features - Page 5

DocNo42, you seem to be a bit on the grumpy side this morning.

The irony of it... And so many of those jailbreak apps exist to deliver functionality available on Android but which Apple didn't wish to support.

There is still room for Apple to copy.

I give up. My comments were all based on features, and I specifically said that EVERYONE copies. I had an iphone until 3 weeks back, which I loved as well. Im a gadget and tech head, have all sorts in my home, while I type this on a mac. I read multiple sites not to find and comment. In fact, I rarely comment. But you obviously dont read as many sites as I do. Next time I see an Android release(Ice Cream is coming out in a few months) and Apple fanboys on there, I will be sure to PM you and make you shut your mouth up. Go read the Samsung S2 releases on some android sites, and you will see what I am talking about. I read apple and Android and WM and WebOS articles on different sites(use a news aggregator, heard of it?). So, before you go on and start talking bullshit out of your ignoramus rear, read my arguments, for ALL sides, not just Android or Apple. I ALSO said that some users, like yourself, agree that notifications needed to be improved. I ALSO said that there ARE Apple fanbois who made comments about Android's notifications being good, but at the same time, I read a bunch of comments which said how Apple's notifications will eventually beat Android's and make it look like crap. So, dont pick and choose my comments. Learn how to read the whole thing, not between the lines to suit your view.

If you dont read enough, thats not my fault. Calling me asshole without doing enough research says a lot. Before calling someone else names, look at your own post. Read it, and re-read it. You are no different than the Android/Apple trolls.

You can now go suck Steve's since you dont believe a word I am saying.

Over, and out.

So basically it was inspired by the iPhone not copied as you assert. And that's the point that Android users keep making.

I went from a Symbian device to Android. I honestly find Android closer to Symbian than to iOS. This is why it baffles me that iOS users claim that Android is ripping off iOS. If anything Symbian users have that claim! Many of the features you claim were unique to the iPhone (kinetic scrolling, touch based widgets, swipe, etc.) were in Symbian phones pre-iPhone. Apple did what they always do. They took this stuff, polished it off and marketed it as revolutionary. I applaud them for that. But no means does that mean that every OS that comes after the iPhone is a blatant rip-off of the iPhone.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, the reason many iPhone users think the iPhone is so great and unique is because they have no conception of smarthphones before the iPhone. A whole whack original iPhone 2G/3G owners went from a Motorola RAZR to an iPhone. If I had a leap like that, I would think the smartphone I bought was magical too and I'd probably assert that these features are unique (because I would've never seen them before).

In places like Europe and Asia where smartphones are more common and dumbphones approach smartphone functionalities, people were far less likely to worship iOS. This is why sales for the iPhone didn't take off in those parts until the 3G/3GS in earnest (once Apple actually started adding functionality that people were used to on smartphones).

Now none of this is to say that the "copying" is bad. I just find it hypocritical that when Apple copies it counts as "inpiration" but Android (or any other OS) imitates a feature that it's copying that's lawsuit worthy. Good for Apple that Google doesn't believe in ridiculous patents. Just imagine if they had patented the notifcation blind or if Samsung had patented lockscreen notifications or if Swype had patented the split soft keyboard. I just hope this puts to bed the constant arguments about copying and brings people to an understanding that the best features will become part of the common understanding on how all touch UIs work.

This concept has been around since the early 2000s. Here's an article in 2006 regarding an Apple patent with an example thumb keyboard and a UMPC design from MS.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/29/a...embles-a-umpc/

The patent is regarding figuring out what the target really is of the touch as opposed to keyboard layout but there's sufficient prior examples of split virtual keyboards from a lot earlier than Win8 from multiple sources.

Heres a better writeup:

http://www.macnews.com/content/apple...eyboard-patent

Lockscreen notifications isn't a Samsung innovation but appeared on dumb phones prior (mostly message and voice mail notifications). Probably Nokia, Sony or Moto.

I showed that split keyboard were around for a while.

Camera is also from dumbphones. Probably attributable to Nokia or Moto.

BBM is a specialized IM client for blackberries but not much new.

Meh, these are not in the same category of game changer that iOS was

Before the ipad what was out there ??
before the iphone what was out there ??

your last remark made you a classic <<< a hole >>>>

play nice


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lol - Android users have supplanted the Linux weenies. I didn't think that was going to be possible


For whatever reason, the mere existence of Apple seems to personally threaten a large number of people and they are compelled to act out. It's the 80's all over again...

Allowed to sue?

Allowed by whom? And if there were allowed then who else was denied?

Party pooper. It's far more fun to gossip about the worst possible scenario.

Or just download Waze for free and get as good or better directions that Google provides as well as more feature like notifications and traffic from other Waze users.


Apple never claimed they were showing us every new feature.


I dunno - I found text reflow to be more annoying on a mobile browser than zooming/panning. Especially with the Retna display, there are very few pages I can't read comfortably with no issue when I have the phone horizontal.

And I think that's why there is so much hostility from Apple haters - Apple isn't "playing ball" and is offering easy to use technology to those who aren't worthy.

It's what soured me on Linux after being initially enthusiastic - the absolute snobbery and elitism was just so over the top. That's why when iOS bested Linux for web browsing I had a good chuckle...

Just tired of the abject cynicism. I suppose I should know better, but Apple hit about every pain point for me and changed mobile.me back into a free offering and the @^#$ trolls that will never own an Apple product simply because it came from Apple and nothing else predictably come out of the proverbial woodwork and start their thread crapping.

I'm somewhat better now I will be hard to wait for iOS 5 to be released later this year...

Same here. Pretty excited about all the new goodies announced at WWDC, come to an Apple site to talk about it, and have to wade through about a 30% crap rate. Makes a man cranky.

I've adjusted my ignore list accordingly (never ending battle, that) but I still think it's a shame. Or tiresome. Or a tiresome shame. Oh well.

Didn'tcha know...Android is Free just like Linux and of course is RUNNING Linux under the hood (under all that allegedly stolen Java tech...which is ALSO Free).

The annoying Fandroids are largely Linux weenies.

Welcome to a month ago....

http://zoknowsgaming.com/2011/05/05/...ge-throws-129/

Complete aside, please don't quintuple post. Just edit your existing one if no one has posted yet.

No, we hate dependency. We could care less about a company increasing user accessibility, that would be like arguing that you should go learn to sodder wires if you want to fix your fan's electrical circuit instead of hiring the electric repair man.

I love Google, but I give them almost nothing because no company can be trusted with such information on an honesty basis, a phone # that's all they have.

What we DO care about is the learning curve. There HAS to be one. It doesn't have to be as hard as certain Linux distros, but if you simplify everything TOO much then the user becomes helpless to any problem that they were never expecting to encounter. What we want is self-sufficiency if even at the bare minimum of tasks.

If it becomes too simple minded of a task then we get situations that could easily be avoided. The little scareware incident with MACguard was the perfect example. You could visit loads of forums that would have told you to not install it, and to get rid of it to just uninstall it like an app. The average user was not taught this, so they freaked out, and hoped that someone would save them. They were helpless trying to get to every source of info as possible. We don't like THIS. If you need the difficulty to go down a notch then fine, but there has to be a point where we have to say, "it's simple enough, get up and learn or go do something else."

Welcome to a couple weeks ago:

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011...cision-on.html

And no, you don't get to whine that Florian is biased if you reference an article that is sourced from Groklaw.

This article is interesting too:

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011...es-mobile.html

If you want to get in on iOS5 and don't have or want a developer account, it can still be done.

http://gizmodo.com/5809621/how-to-up...urce=pulsenews

The last comment from Jexus is typical nonsense. The malware attack was on the mac, an OS where you can live in the command line if you want. The difficulty scales from unix command line to easy, and that's what annoys the not very brights who think that visiting forums makes them sone kind of genius. It doesn't.

The fact that a unix box can be operated by mom is what pisses them off.

Most if not ALL OS's allow one to access the command line in some way. That is no excuse for 60-120,000 possible infections before being quelled.

How many people do you know that buy a mac specifically for the command line? Because I don't know any.

That article speaks for itself, Google doesn't make money off of selling android, they make money off ads which are not exclusive to android. Oracle won't get that call.

Recommending linux is demanding dependence.


It doesn't matter if the company is responsive to the user's needs.


WTF? Googling for a solution is not solving the problem themselves? Do you expect everyone to decompile the trojan and hunt down any little pieces that could be hiding in the system?

Linux is nothing but a googlefest since even the simplest incarnation is an arcane mess.

Maybe. Maybe not. I'm not a lawyer not do I pretend to be a legal knowitall on the internet.

WTF does the command line have to do with anything?

60-120K infections among an installed base of 58 million users? And the 60-120K number is completely pulled out of thin air by Ed Bott (zdnet) based on a source he can't name for guesstimates in percentage and call volume.

Ed Bott is an apple hater so all of what he wrote needs to be taken with a ton of salt.

Welcome to forums. We all have a bias, agenda, or some reason why everything we say should be taken with a grain of salt haha

Right, and the guy who is talking trash otherwise doesnt make anything. You are the same, you picked my last sentence and didnt read the validity of the rest. Typical.

"ugly yowl of the Android army as they belittle the site management for sucking Apple's dick for even mentioning the name and bellowing about the "fanboys" and what they'd probably be saying or thinking, if they were actually in evidence."

I got pissed, cause of what I read. Comprende? Before you tell me to play nice, make sure you see what others have said before, and ask them to play nice as well. Double standards, eh?

F' this shit. Ill just read articles like I usually do and get outta here. You guys can battle it out, not really worth discussing anything with someone who cant see anything except what they want to. Proves one thing though, Apple fanatics are just as nasty, maybe even more.

One thing I will definitely PM to both you and the others who responded: When the next major Android release is out, Ill show you how the Apple fanbois come out in DROVES on other websites I happen to read bellowing the same crapola attitude that i hate about Android folks.

And yes, by the way, I will say one more time. READ what I wrote. I like Apple, and own 2 MBPs at home. My wife carries an iphone. I like to read about everything, AND I said Apple always has interesting announcements. Nothing before the iphone and the ipad, agreed, revolutionary products. That does NOT change the facts of what happened in Ios5. My point is, dont preach from the choir when you do the same thing yourself, and that was to Apple, and to the gazillion defenders of Apple. And yes, Google copied Apple, and so did the rest of the world. That happens in any industry. So for Apple to stand on the high chair and sue companies,a s an example, for copying the lock mechanism(HTC), this is a pretty low point. And everyone copies, and go read the rest, I am tired of repetetion. Who it got copied from, I dont give a rats ass. The point is, they copied, and not one. but multiple features. It does not mean its a POS, still the most slick OS out there for everyone, just not for me. Understand now?

God, I feel like I am talking to f'ing selfish teenagers. Ugh.

Wow, somebody's wound up tight over ... opinions.
It's the Internet... not worth getting all huffy about!

The distinction is irrelevant to Apple. As for Microsoft owning Skype, it doesn't change anything. Apple frequently incorporates technology from other companies into its products. Support for Microsoft Exchange, for example, is built-in to iOS.

The catch here is the question of whether Apple licensed these things from the folks that created it. Which they likely did. That is assuming that someone else created it. For all we know Apple created it, patented it, licensed it to those other folks and now is using it in their own tech.

Whereas, Samsung is being accused of copying a trademarked "look and feel" without asking anyone for permission.



They are giving the 3rd party developers time to prep their apps. Apple doesn't like a ton of stuff that is still back in the IOS 3 and 4 days and they are pushing everyone to revamp. Which needs time.

And call me shocked. almost 200 messages and the "still no support for Flash" whining hasn't started. I think that might be a record.

Fine. But what does that have to do with deriding new users, extolling them to read the man pages (if there ever was a deserving ring of purgatory...), trawl through forums and piece together the answer themselves because like, what are you STUPID or something?

I never understood that about the vast majority of the open source community. If you don't want to lead a newbie by the hand why can't you just ignore them? Why do you have to deride them or come up with web sites that point out how much more clever you are than them?

If that's your attitude what the hell are you doing trolling places where people are asking questions? If you think that website is funny, clearly you lack basic social skills and belong nowhere near "newbs".


Ding Ding Ding! That's why OpenSource will never evolve beyond the realm of science fair project.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. However, you can't have your cake and eat it too. It's not reasonable to get mad at people for not using your software (even if it is "clearly" superior ) or subscribing to your philosophy when you are basically holding them in utter contempt


How about just replacing the fan? With todays economics thats far more reasonable. Appliance/black box. It is our world, for better or worse. That's a more applicable analogy.


So you have no bank accounts, health insurance or credit cards?

You did say "no company"

What about government? File taxes, have any vehicles registered, own any property?

How absurd do we have to be here?


Why? Because only the "worthy" should be allowed to use technology?

What a bunch of elitist popycock. No wonder Apple gets under über geek skin so easily and thoroughly - how dare they open the hallowed halls to the commoners!


Wow - if we were in the 1700's you probably would be arguing people shouldn't be able to ride horses without knowing how to shoe them.


What you want is absurd. And (thank god) irrelevant.

Hey - change your own oil? Its ridiculously easy - users should be able to be self-sufficent at a bare minimum of tasks.

And this is rational to you? Sadly it must be because we go into the rabbit hole deeper:


Yes! Like having the commoners fondling our technology. The horrors!


Neither do non-technical users. Which is why within 5 years (maybe sooner now with iOS 5 not having PC dependancies) iOS devices will displace general purpose PC's for most normal users. iOS is inherently immune to the issue you cite. And even if something like a trojan gets through, unlike on general purpose OS's Apple (and google!) can - gasp - pull the offending program.

Wow - they can undo the "lusers" from shooting themselves in the foot. Like it or not, that's far more reasonable - some people are never going to learn "basic skills" you want. Not because they are stupid or lazy, but because they have different priorities.


Your hubris is staggering. Again, thank god there is at least ONE company that is willing to call your elitist BS for what it is, ignore it and go on making technology accessible.

Anyway, let me bottom line it for you: Whether you like it or not, iOS is the future for the majority of users. Your days of control and "wants" are over. You can continue to rant and rail about worthiness and minimum skills all you want, but it won't have one whits of affect. Feel free to carry on - just be prepared for continued and increasing disappointment when reality continues to diverge from your vision.

All the security specialists I know. But since Mac OS X has a GUI it must not be a real OS with such training wheels, right?

Gawd, I'm back in the 80's all over again

Computer holy wars

Far less than you and other proponents of this straw man like to intimate.

But hey, whatever helps you sleep at night!


Yes! Who would expect Apple fans on an Apple site - the humanity!


No where to the extent of the haters. And if you want to dispute that - throw up some links.


Sure, there are fanboys everywhere. What gets me - and has since I first started using Mac's in the 80's is the Jexus's of the world who are obviously personally threatened by the mere existence of Apple. They act as if every time you purchase an Apple product God smotes a kitten, penguin and deletes a competing piece of technology from existence.

The insecurity of some people that others might prefer a model of computing that is contrary to their philosophy is simply staggering. That these same people will then try to portray Apple fans as religious zealots is hysterical and the very definition of ironic. That their totally blind to their hypocrisy, even after being openly ridiculed (with love and reason, mind you) is just sad.

Oh well...

LOL - even the flashtards have given up, I think.

Finally.

AGAIN, you're quintuple posting. Irony in that you wasted one on a single emoticon response to my first comment about it.

There's an edit button in the bottom right of your posts and a multi-quote button in the bottom right of everyone else's.

You mean responding individually? Your getting pedantic about posting style? Good luck with that...

And people thought grammar whores were bad?

I'm finally glad the PC Free idea is intact, I get get antsy having to hook up my iPhone 4 to my laptop for syncing purposes every time I have new data stored. Also, the Notification Center is a much welcome feature and is surely needed.

I'm pondering about enrolling in the developers iOS program, so I can get early access to the iOS 5 upgrade.