Monday evening I installed for the first time iOS beta 6 1, the first version of the "new iOS" to be publicly released in the fall of this year. I couldn't say that I was "set back" by the changes implemented by Apple, and that's because I was initially "lost" through the Settings application while trying to distinguish the changes implemented by Apple. Going quickly over this phase, I discovered that the status bar si dialer software they seemed "taken out of a bad movie", and the specific feeling of something new was completely missing. When I installed iOS 5 for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of changes in the operating system for iDevices, but with iOS 6 I did not experience the same thing.
Investing closely in the operating system I discovered the new App Store, the new method of installing applications, the changes inside the Phone application and the Do Not Disturb function si the way newly installed applications are brought to our attention. I was pleasantly surprised by the integration of Twitter/FaceBook in the Notifications Center and the new application sharing interface, but the good things did not stop there because I came across a Safari that lets me upload photos to websites and navigate faster in fullscreen mode. These were, for me, the good parts of iOS 6 and I corroborated them with an autonomy as good as in iOS 5.1.1, but here we have only a part of everything that Apple added.
I was unpleasantly impressed by the new Maps application which in Bucharest will probably be useful to me, but otherwise it becomes just an accessory that occupies a pointless place in Springboard. They seem equally useless to me the new functions of the Siri assistant considering that the Romanian language is not supported and I will not dictate my statuses on Facebook in English. FaceTime over 3G I do not care, the functions in the Privacy menu it doesn't really help me either Photo Stream Sharing it won't get too far when you have Facebook at hand. Practically, the good things convince you that you have an operating system in the terminal that is worth using, but everything is subjective and depends on how everyone uses their iDevice.
From my point of view, iOS 6 was mostly "updated", few functions are really new and so far I haven't found a revolutionary one. iOS 5 has brought much more for users and no, the Maps application is not something great for Romanians because it will be a long time before we have maps as detailed as those in Google Maps. I am not disappointed with iOS 6, but I am not excited because with it Apple does not take a big step forward, as it did with iOS 5, but implements some functions already available in Android terminals, probably with the idea of not losing even more many users in front of operating systems with the names of pastries, as Scot Forstall called them.
In the end, I will tell you that I had no functional problems with iOS 6, everything ran well and I will continue to use it because, from my point of view, it is better than iOS 5. What do you think about iOS 6?
