Dryden;2011264; said:I've read from numerous sites that it will be midnight eastern.
I can't wait. I want iMessage now!!!!!1!!!11!!1wl;akjhdlkjhag
Midnight? Fucking hell. I guess they wanna drag this out.
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Midnight? Fucking hell. I guess they wanna drag this out.
Dryden;2011264; said:I've read from numerous sites that it will be midnight eastern.
I can't wait. I want iMessage now!!!!!1!!!11!!1wl;akjhdlkjhag
Teh Twitters now seem to be saying 1PM EST. Let's hope so. That seems to be more consistent with they way they've released updates in the past.
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iOS 5 is live.
Looking like a 37-40 min. download.
EDIT: Download time climbing now that everybody else in the world has caught on. 70 mins. and rising.
Looking like a 37-40 min. download.
EDIT: Download time climbing now that everybody else in the world has caught on. 70 mins. and rising.
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A few iOS 5 impressions...
I upgraded on both of my devices. The iPad2 was never going to be an issue, but after hearing about how iOS 4 pretty much gimped any iPhone 3G it touched, I was a little worried about what iOS 5 might do to my 3GS. Well, my iPhone is running like a champ after the upgrade. It's probably not as crisp as the iPhone 4 or 4S, but if there is any slowness I'm not noticing it. Battery life is as good as ever. If you have a 3GS, I wouldn't hesitate to upgrade to iOS 5.
The new notifications are nice. I've about doubled the number of apps where I use push notifications now that they're not so intrusive.
I am not impressed with Newsstand. It's essentially a skinned, protected folder, and any Newsstand-compatible apps (such as the New York Times, Esquire, etc.) will automatically reside there. I can understand why it's not folded into iBooks, or wasn't made into an app of its own rather than a folder. Publishers want control over how their magazines look and behave, and they've already ceded more than enough control to Apple on pricing and subscriptions. To me though it just seems like this was all done in a very un-Apple way, and it's a bit jarring.
I think I had underestimated iCloud to begin with. We're starting to see third party apps that are going to begin taking advantage of it, and it's exciting. I really like the idea of having my data automatically synchronized across all my devices automatically, behind the scenes. It's not just documents and device backups either. Imagine playing halfway thru Angry Birds on your iPad, then picking it up on your iPhone and finding that it has preserved your progress rather than making you start at the beginning. I have a couple apps that I use right now to catalog my book and CD collections. They are universal apps, but I don't even have them installed on my iPad because keeping them in sync (even with Dropbox) is an ordeal.
I read a Gizmodo article extolling the virtues of iCloud, and predictably the comments were overtaken by Android and various other fanboys who read it as if the author were saying that Apple invented the cloud or something. Of course, everybody else has been providing cloud services for a long time now. I think there is a difference though, and I see it as this: Cloud services are like trying to park your rental car at an expensive downtown hotel when you travel. You can either self park it or valet it. Either way, your car is stored safely and you can retrieve it whenever you want to use it. The difference is, with the valet I just tell somebody I want my car and it shows up. When I'm done with it, I bring it back and they put it away. I don't know precisely where it goes or the route they took to put it there, and I don't need to. I just know it shows up whenever I ask for it. With the self park, I have to hike a couple blocks, go underground and look around among all the other similar-looking rental cars to find it, then pretty much do the reverse when I bring it back.
Dropbox and other cloud services are nice to an extent, but I don't want to have to push and pull all of my data around on all of my devices to keep everything current - not when I can just have it be there when I need it pretty much automatically. That looks like the difference that iCloud is bringing to the table, and I'm excited for the possibilities.
Tabbed browsing - finally. I tried several third party browsers that supported this on the iPad, and didn't like any of them. They were all too cluttered. The new Safari is just right. Reading List is something I can do without. Instapaper does the same thing and I hardly use it. Reader is awesome though. Just hit the button in the address bar on most webpages, and presto! It does the Instapaper thing on the fly on top of your current tab - taking out all of the bullcrap and just letting you read clean text with photos - it even stitches together multiple pages.
I upgraded on both of my devices. The iPad2 was never going to be an issue, but after hearing about how iOS 4 pretty much gimped any iPhone 3G it touched, I was a little worried about what iOS 5 might do to my 3GS. Well, my iPhone is running like a champ after the upgrade. It's probably not as crisp as the iPhone 4 or 4S, but if there is any slowness I'm not noticing it. Battery life is as good as ever. If you have a 3GS, I wouldn't hesitate to upgrade to iOS 5.
The new notifications are nice. I've about doubled the number of apps where I use push notifications now that they're not so intrusive.
I am not impressed with Newsstand. It's essentially a skinned, protected folder, and any Newsstand-compatible apps (such as the New York Times, Esquire, etc.) will automatically reside there. I can understand why it's not folded into iBooks, or wasn't made into an app of its own rather than a folder. Publishers want control over how their magazines look and behave, and they've already ceded more than enough control to Apple on pricing and subscriptions. To me though it just seems like this was all done in a very un-Apple way, and it's a bit jarring.
I think I had underestimated iCloud to begin with. We're starting to see third party apps that are going to begin taking advantage of it, and it's exciting. I really like the idea of having my data automatically synchronized across all my devices automatically, behind the scenes. It's not just documents and device backups either. Imagine playing halfway thru Angry Birds on your iPad, then picking it up on your iPhone and finding that it has preserved your progress rather than making you start at the beginning. I have a couple apps that I use right now to catalog my book and CD collections. They are universal apps, but I don't even have them installed on my iPad because keeping them in sync (even with Dropbox) is an ordeal.
I read a Gizmodo article extolling the virtues of iCloud, and predictably the comments were overtaken by Android and various other fanboys who read it as if the author were saying that Apple invented the cloud or something. Of course, everybody else has been providing cloud services for a long time now. I think there is a difference though, and I see it as this: Cloud services are like trying to park your rental car at an expensive downtown hotel when you travel. You can either self park it or valet it. Either way, your car is stored safely and you can retrieve it whenever you want to use it. The difference is, with the valet I just tell somebody I want my car and it shows up. When I'm done with it, I bring it back and they put it away. I don't know precisely where it goes or the route they took to put it there, and I don't need to. I just know it shows up whenever I ask for it. With the self park, I have to hike a couple blocks, go underground and look around among all the other similar-looking rental cars to find it, then pretty much do the reverse when I bring it back.
Dropbox and other cloud services are nice to an extent, but I don't want to have to push and pull all of my data around on all of my devices to keep everything current - not when I can just have it be there when I need it pretty much automatically. That looks like the difference that iCloud is bringing to the table, and I'm excited for the possibilities.
Tabbed browsing - finally. I tried several third party browsers that supported this on the iPad, and didn't like any of them. They were all too cluttered. The new Safari is just right. Reading List is something I can do without. Instapaper does the same thing and I hardly use it. Reader is awesome though. Just hit the button in the address bar on most webpages, and presto! It does the Instapaper thing on the fly on top of your current tab - taking out all of the bullcrap and just letting you read clean text with photos - it even stitches together multiple pages.
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My chief complaint thus far with the iOS 5/iTunes 10.5 setup is that iTunes 10.5 becomes very unresponsive when it launches wireless sync -- Windows version, don't know if OSX has this problem. It's not a CPU intensive deal and it's not thrashing memory, so I don't know what the bug is. Tethered syncing does not have this issue, its wifi only.
It is neat though to SplashTop into my desktop from the Pad while sitting in my recliner, open iTunes, select a couple albums or a video to add to the Pad, hit sync, and voila ... everything is on the Pad within a couple minutes. Just walking into the house and seeing iTunes pop open on my desktop to push updates to my iPhone once it's in range is slick.
The new tabbed Safari is excellent.
I hate (hate hate hate) the addition of the 'mark' button in the mail app since it is located where the 'move' button used to be. Pain in the ass to flag groups of messages and move them since they moved the 'move' button from where it's been the past three years. To put it bluntly, that was a pretty fucking stupid thing to do.
With iOS 5 just about everyone has a new or updated app. Editions now supports landscape mode. Hooray!
It is neat though to SplashTop into my desktop from the Pad while sitting in my recliner, open iTunes, select a couple albums or a video to add to the Pad, hit sync, and voila ... everything is on the Pad within a couple minutes. Just walking into the house and seeing iTunes pop open on my desktop to push updates to my iPhone once it's in range is slick.
The new tabbed Safari is excellent.
I hate (hate hate hate) the addition of the 'mark' button in the mail app since it is located where the 'move' button used to be. Pain in the ass to flag groups of messages and move them since they moved the 'move' button from where it's been the past three years. To put it bluntly, that was a pretty fucking stupid thing to do.
With iOS 5 just about everyone has a new or updated app. Editions now supports landscape mode. Hooray!
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Dryden;2012159; said:
I hadn't tried wireless sync yet, and I hadn't even though to using it in conjunction with Splashtop.
I love the mark button for the fact that it exists now. I didn't even use the move button (and didn't know it even existed until you mentioned it). I use flags and categories more than folders. I just like that I can finally flag my work emails that I need to follow up on. That had been a glaring omission until now. Support for categories would be nice, but I'll take what I can get for now.
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Stumbled across an AirPrint-compatible all-in-one HP printer on clearance at Target tonight. Works like a champ printing wirelessly from my iPad and iPhone. The only problem I had was trying to set it up for my laptop without plugging in via USB - specifically, my dumb idea to use the CD that came with it instead of just installing the drivers from HP's website. The installer on the disc didn't ask for any permissions or give me the option for a custom install, so I spent two hours removing bloatware and going though compulsory reboots. :hatepc: What's even more sad than my brain fart about using the disc in the first place is that somewhere out there, there are people who keep and gladly use all of the stupid bloatware because they don't know any better.
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CentralMOBuck
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I've been a big android fan for a while, but I recently checked out an iPad 1 to help "develop" an app in my iOS class. So far I've been highly impressed with the device. There are a few things I dislike about it, but so far it's been really nice. Definitely like it better than my laptop for simple things like web-browsing when I'm watching TV.
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Tonyank;2014143; said:
Probably, but I'd definitely like to try out an Android tablet before buying an iPad.
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CentralMOBuck;2014160; said:
if the iPad had a file system I wood already own one. until then, I will wait for Android tablets to mature
the iPad is a remarkable device but the insistence on cross device apps takes a beautiful Apple screen and abuses it like a grandma with a high end IPS monitor set to 800x600 resolution.
the iPad would be the ultimate browser of magazines and photos if its resolution wasn't so lousy.
the teeny tiny iPhone has remarkable dpi, yet the far bigger iPad has the opposite.
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Most apps now are dual-purpose and written specifically to each device. The best part is that (with a few exceptions) I can buy an app once and get an optimized version for both devices. Your complaint was valid in January 2010, when Apple gave only a few select devs two-weeks notice about the iPad launch, but it's not the case today.jwinslow;2014202; said:
I read virtually everything on my iPad now. Zinio, Editions, Flipboard, Amazon's Kindle app, as well as sketching with a Wacom Bamboo stylus in ArtRage and Autodesk SketchBook Pro, and I cannot think of one time that I have ever, ever, lamented that the iPad didn't have an Apple Retina display.
A 10" Retina display has thus-far been price-prohibitive. It allegedly won't be with the iPad 3.
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I think it is a perfect business model, it's just a pet peeve of mine. and unlike some of my Apple criticisms, the noticeably low resolution isn't something many would notice IMO. pretty excited about the mere possibility of your cost effective rumor.
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