today, iOS 6 launched for iphones, ipod touches and ipads everywhere. To me it was a great update. What with redesigned itunes stores, facebook integration, Apple Maps and UI changes in other app. To me, what I got in iOS 6 was great, but I was also disappointed too because i miss on Siri, Panorama mode in the camera and the Flyover mode in maps, all stuff I wanted but could not have because I have a 2 year old 4th generation ipod touch, not fair! oh well, it was alright though.

Enjoy apple fans and owners! :) and tell me what you think

More of the same. Maps is better than I expected (I was expecting a significant downgrade but that doesn't appear to be the case at all). Siri's new feature are nice. Overall, not terribly exciting but an improvement overall.

Meh. It's the worst major iOS update ever. Well, this comes from an iTouch 4 user who gained basically nothing, I'm sure users with better models got better features.

However, a new Mountain Lion update was released too and apparently it fixed MacBook's battery life. Yay!

Yeah, I'd say that this is the most unexciting iOS major release yet. Mostly lots of nice little features, nothing huge and dramatic.

Mostly because of all the work that went into creating a Google Maps alternative, methinks. It's a massive undertaking to build a replacement for a service that Google has been developing for seven years. Apple's maps app might be a sidegrade (at best), but it's a huge hurdle that Apple needed to jump sooner or later. From a user standpoint, little has changed, but from a developer standpoint, that's a challenge as big as Siri.

Speaking of which, the nicest thing for me as a Canadian is getting full access to Siri's functionality. It was nice for reminders, voice control, and other small tasks, but it really sucked to be unable to search for anything location-based.

Its a good update for iProducts. However, every feature has existed for at least a year or more in WP7.x (facebook/other integration) or Android (everything else).

This isn't a one is better than other post, just that its not innovative by any means. Simply catches iOS up to its competitors. WP8 will likely catch it up to others and then what? Only Google to push the boundaries. How boring.

As an example, iOS 4 had an awesome new set of features for pictures and video that took Android a few versions to finally match (really only got there with 4.1). iOS 5 had Siri that while Android always had voice, Siri is far more natural in its capabilities (something 4.1 is close to matching... surely be there in later upgrade). Now Siri is the only thing not matched or exceeded by others and really that is just in terms of natural speech. I can literally do anything with Google Voice Search or Google Now that you can with Siri, however, Siri is less command like.. mostly. But Google has a better voice synthesizer, is arguably more accurate, and with Google Now actually knows what you may need before you do. Simply awesome.

iOS6 brought nothing new, nothing innovative. Just added stuff already in Android or WP. Its even still missing full features like the awesome stuff surrounding NFC technology as just one example.

Really what I'm saying is, previously iPhones would catch Android on hardware and maybe even slightly exceed but then always have a couple big software features that just weren't in anything else. Now its Apple this is following in every detail.

I love competition in the marketplace as it makes it better for everyone. But I feel like Apple is too focused on killing innovation through litigation and then not innovating themselves. All that will do is make the market standstill and we'll stop advancing all together. booo to that. C;mon Apple get back on the field and play some damn ball!

While I agree with you on many counts (I think iOS6 is decent but not great), you're downplaying a few things. iOS6 has turn-by-turn directions with "on-the-fly" route searching. That's going to be a pretty big deal to me once my iPhone arrives. I'm always trying to read my phone while driving and it's a mess. More/better Siri integration is also welcome. I was playing around with it last night and everything seems to be slightly improved and the searching is better (though, as you said, 4.1 is right there, too).

But the big feature Android is missing that you're overlooking is AirPlay. I use it extensively in my home with two AppleTVs. AirPlay is the 800 lb. gorilla for those that have used it. Once you start rotating up content from your Mac/iPhone/iPad on to your television, you'll never go back to the old, crappy way of sharing content.

But overall, I don't disagree with most of what you said. Apple needs to step it up with iOS7. They need to return to leading the pack instead of saying "we also have that feature". They are uniquely positioned to lead the market because they are the only company that controls both hardware and software. That means they can roll out devices and software far faster than anyone else and they should be taking advantage of it, not sitting on their laurels.

Nothing to gain here. I don't use maps,siri and I don't care about facebook integration. I am very happy with the performance however, and the fact that I am still getting updates as soon as everyone else. On the other hand, My patience for Xperia sola update is running out, Q3 for ICS my ass.

Why are you reading your phone.... Android has had voice turn by turn for years and you can very easily switch to different routes. Furthermore, that feature isn't available to a great number of countries where as Google Maps and Navigation is pretty much everywhere now. You can also just hit the mic button and say "navigate to..." or "where is....". Android does it the same and arguably better.

Airplay is nice... if you also own only other Apple products. However, you can do the same thing if you own Google products. Really not a difference at all. I watch my Android store stuff on TV or through home stereo all the time. Aside from Google/Android directly you have a bigger difference with DLNA. Apple forces Apple, Android embraces open standards. I can turn on my PS3 and see my phone's content. I can turn on my GoogleTV device and see my phones content. I can get a newer TV with DLNA and see my phone's content. Really Airplay is actually more of a hinderence unless you live 100% within Apples walls. I prefer choice.

Fully agree with your final paragraph. I want to see true innovation war. It only makes it better for everyone, regardless of their flavor of kool-aid.

Yes that is the one thing that truly sucks with Android. However post-ICS that all changes. If you get a phone with at least 4.0 (all new phones now) you'll get later updates within a month or two vs a year. Example, the Galaxy S3 is getting 4.1 within the next couple of weeks. Only a little over a month after the code was released to the wild and/or after Nexus phones got it.

Additionally, you could skip all that mess by just getting a Nexus phone which is really the only Android that is the most similar to iPhone. (i.e. made and controlled by Google)

Mobile Safari is getting dangerously fast. Fast enough that I'm not sure I want to use my favourite Twitter client anymore because web links load so slow in it by comparison.

Disappointed by the App Store update. It's generally snappier and I'm glad downloads don't kick you to the springboard anymore, but the new layout stinks on iPhone and the new app pages stink on iPad. The old iPad app pages were a wall of text, but these little things are claustrophobic and underutilize available space.

Also, introducing ads and disabling Airplay make Google's Youtube app an inadequate replacement for Apple's Youtube app, especially on iPad. I'll end up using m.youtube.com with its poor UI (relative to a good app, not to other web sites) just because it will support Airplay.

I think I generally like the revamped Music app, but it's lost pretty much all storage management if you're an iTunes Match user. There's no way to download individual songs from an album except by playing them individually and I can't find a way to deliberately delete albums or songs at all.

Siri and the new Maps are decent, but it's easy to see how they could be improved with more data. Businesses generally have a poor internet presence in my hometown, and these tools would be a lot better if more local restaurants had Yelp entries. Maps routing works well, but Siri failed to find one big destination because it was searching for 'center' and not 'centre' (the latter could be properly found with a text search in Maps). It should be smart enough to try both.