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Apple To Unveil iOS 6 At WWDC 2012
redletterdave writes "At next week's WWDC 2012 in San Francisco, Apple is expected to unveil new laptops, desktops, accessories, and software features for its Mac OS X platform. But on Friday afternoon, several pictures surfaced on Twitter showing banners released around Moscone West in San Francisco, saying 'iOS 6: The world's most advanced mobile operating system.'"
In before the Anti-Apple rants. I'll be at the event early Monday in line, wearing the Android and Apple logo making out t-shirt. Pray for me, as I'll be trolling the event the entire week with my free pass ;)
True Multitasking?
It's like putting together an article proclaiming there will, in fact, be a next week next week.
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Yeah, people will hate that $0 upgrade fee.
If you can't convince them, convict them.
Can anyone zoom in enough to spot the price sticker? I reckon the charge to upgrade for existing users isn't going to go down too well...
The price sticker will probably say "Free".
Apple used to charge iPod touch users for some upgrades due to regulatory/accounting regulations. iPhone users were not subject to this regulation and were not charged. Apple wants people to upgrade iOS, they want as few barriers as possible to upgrades. They are actually somewhat aggressive in pushing users to the most recent version. They don't really want people out there running older versions.
Nobody sucks Apple's dick harder than Apple.*
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Nobody.
* OK, so technically that applies to the marketing department of, well, everyone who does marketing... but we're not discussing them now, are we?
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Can I run any software I want on my own device yet, without having to hack around security meant to give that control to someone else?
If not...no thanks.
If you don't have a smartphone, and you only played with an android, you don't know the difference.
Therefor, you are just a toy.
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GP said "I've used both".
I've also used both. There are nice things about iOS. It's definitely prettier (though ICS is damn slick) and slightly 'smoother'. For features that matter, though -- such as being able to use my own hardware the way I want to -- Android wins hands down.
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Can anyone zoom in enough to spot the price sticker? I reckon the charge to upgrade for existing users isn't going to go down too well...
The price sticker will probably say "Free".
Probably right, that is unless the upgrade is unavailable for your device (i.e. older iPhones), or breaks it. Under those circumstances, I contend the upgrade price will be the price of whatever phone Apple is pimping at the time of iOS 6's release.
Today Apple is offering an iPhone 3GS 8GB for "free" (with an AT&T plan) and it runs the more recent version of iOS. There will probably be a similar plan for iOS 6.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if iOS 6 supports the 3GS. The 3GS is basically using the same CPU and GPU architectures as the more modern phones, unlike the discontinued 3G. So unless they want to go pure Retina display there isn't much reason to pass on the 3GS. Now if Apple does go the pure Retina display route then as an iPhone 5 is released the original 4 will probably become the "free" phone and offer iOS 6.
I have owned both (and used a number of ICS devices) and feel far more comfortable in iOS. Maybe that is familiarity, but most of it is fluidity. I have to use crappy Windows and Linux environments all day. Something that feels more fluid, consistent, and integrated is most welcome when I finish work and am reunited with my mobile devices.
You can blame Verizon and Sprint and the International Telecommunications Union standards body. Originally 4G was supposed to mean the 4th generation succeeding what we know as 3G today. The standards specified a network speed minimum. LTE which is on the Verizon and Sprint networks qualify for 4G except for speed. But the standards body allowed them to claim their networks as "4G". That led AT&T and T-mobile to cry foul as their upgraded 3G+ (3.5G) networks were theoretically faster than Verizon's and Sprint's. So the standards body relaxed the standard so AT&T and T-mobile's networks now qualify for "4G" label. The upgrade simply relabeled the network as AT&T designated it.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I blame the butthurt marketing dickbags at AT&T for re-marketing their crappy 3G network as 4G instead of investing in an authentic 4G network.
If you want to point fingers, it kinda sorta goes back to Sprint. They didn't want to invest in their own next-generation data network, so they started using Clearwire's WiMax network for data. Even though the speeds were nothing like the ITU's version of "4G," they started marketing it as such because "hey, it's a generation after 3G so ... it must be 4G."
AT&T and Verizon both planned to invest in LTE for their 4G networks, but poor T-Mobile USA didn't have (or want to spend) the cash for a real next-gen network. So T-Mo looked around and said, "hey, our HSPA+ network is much faster than what Sprint is calling '4G' so ... it must be 4G!"
AT&T had already planned a big LTE investment but it wasn't going to roll out until 2012 so they got tired of having the same thing as T-Mo (HSPA+) but getting beat up by T-Mobile with "we have 4G and you don't" so they sank to T-Mobile's level and started branding HSPA+ as "4G." Not very mature, but hey that's marketing.
And that's how you got to a situation where only two of the four major US carriers have deployed LTE (AT&T and Verizon) but all four claim to have 4G networks. Even better, three of the four all actually claim to have "the nation's largest 4G network." Oh, and to top it all off, all four will have LTE within the next two years but will almost certainly not be calling it the same thing. :-)
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So, just call it a plug-in for the OS. Otherwise, how else are you going to have arbitrary and open-ended functionality? Or would you rather you bought the phone and all it could ever do was baked into it on the day you bought it. That's what phones used to be like. Whatever happened to them?