Great to hear that it fixes bugs - but it would be extremely helpful to know exactly WHICH bugs have been fixed. Apple leave themselves so open to criticism because they don't tell us what they have sorted out with this update.
For example a number of my mates have reported problems with using iOS 6.0.x with their cars over Bluetooth (calls dropping etc) - has this been fixed yet?
It is very unhelpful to give such a vague, lazy and generic "bug-fixes and improvements" detail to the upgrade - there are people out there who I know are ready to jump to Android because of specific problems they have experienced and I can't tell them that their problems have been fixed because there is no acknowledgment of them.
It's all very well telling people to update and then see if the problem has been fixed, but it shouldn't be necessary, and non-techy people (who are a vitally important customer base for Apple) don't like the uncertainty of "Well you can try updating and see if your problem is fixed but there's no guarantee". This is just as bad as the geeky mess that is Android and if Apple want to be seen as the more professionally executed product they should be more communicative to their customers.
And I have to say that I do somewhat agree with comments about Apple losing inertia. I know they are slaving away inside the hallowed portals and we should be grateful for whatever emerges, but even as a life-long evangelist of Apple (since the Mac Plus), I am somewhat concerned about their execution at the moment. I do believe that the shares have been oversold, but at the same time there is an element of method in the market and I think we are at a critical point in the mobile marketplace. The first rush of products has how started to wane and the amount of innovation is dropping.
I personally don't subscribe to the bigger, better, faster creed, and I think the appeal of this is waning as people realise that it doesn't necessarily give them anything significant in their daily lives. Let's face it, does an iPhone 5 do THAT much better a job than an iPhone 4? I still think that an iPhone (of whatever model) is a more productive tool for me than an Android phone, but the difference is diminishing. And although Apple are still able to get a lot of profit out of the business at present, how much longer will that last in the face of an aggressively competitive Android phone marketplace where the OS developer also does not depend on the sale of hardware to be profitable?
