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.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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